Everett T. Tomlinson

“ It certainly was humiliating to the feelings of the young soldier to be made a prisoner by such men. If he had been taken and his precious letter had been seized by those who were enrolled in the army of King George it would not have been quite so humiliating, he thought; but to be seized by the cowboys and held as a prisoner by them until they should be well paid for delivering him into the hands of his enemies was to make a bad matter even worse. And that such was to be his fate Robert Dorlon had not a doubt. ”

“ Robert Dorlon shrugged his shoulders in the darkness and softly whistled as he heard that he was a prisoner of the well-known band.
"I thought so," laughed Josh. "’Most everybody has."
"Why do you call yourselves the Thirteen?"
"Because that's what we are, or rather it's what we started with. Some have been shot, and some have left, but we 've had more come, so I guess we 're about the same's when we started. There's another reason why we call ourselves that, though." ”

“ The man must have been at least six feet and six inches in height, and his enormous frame seemed to the startled prisoner to be even more immense than it really was.
It became speedily evident that the two men were well known to each other, for Robert's captor said, "I 've a fellow here for you to look after, Josh, and you must not let him slip through your fingers either. He's slippery and he's valuable, too."
When Josh replied it was in a voice that was deeper than Robert thought he ever had heard, but it was not unmusical, and under other circumstances might even have been attractive. ”