They advanced cautiously, to spy out what had happened and saw him rolling from side to side, striving to rise, falling back.

The woman was nowhere visible.
"Who done it, Aleck ?" demanded the man next in command, when he had ventured closer.

"Did she shoot you ?" Aleck groaned as he rolled over, his face upward.

A nod showed his crippled shoulder.

His other hand Big Aleck feebly placed upon his hip.