No deer! ...

Reckon it'd be a good idee for us to slip round acrost this bench." "Wal, y'u fellars go, an' I'll watch heah," returned Colter.
"Not much," said Somers, while Springer leered knowingly.
Colter became incensed, but he did not give way to it.

Pondering a moment, he finally turned to Ellen.

"Y'u wait heah till I come back.
An' if I don't come in reasonable time y'u slip across the canyon an' through the willows to the cabins.

Wait till aboot dark." With that he possessed himself of one of the extra rifles and belts and silently joined his comrades.