About a mile out on the plain that stretched away toward the Arrow he saw the two men.

They seemed to be walking rapidly.
Calumet returned to the ranchhouse, got a pick and shovel, and went back to the timber clump.

An hour later he was again at the corral.
He led the Taggart horses out, took them to the bend in the trail, and turned them loose, for he anticipated that the Taggarts would make a complaint to the sheriff about them, and if they were found in the Lazy Y corral trouble would be sure to result.
He watched them until they were well on their way toward the Arrow, and then he returned to the ranchhouse and went to bed.

No one had heard him, he told himself with a grin as he stretched out on the bed beside Dade to sleep the hour that would elapse before daylight..