H. Bedford-Jones

“ If men offended the laws of nature, a terrible punishment was exacted from them. If they offended the laws of man, as they did every day, the ordinary machinery of man's justice could not always reach them—and they knew it.
"By gosh," said Sagebrush, when they halted at noon in the shade of a towering pinnacle of rock, "ye done a good stroke when ye got to work this mornin' and cut off Sidewinder from them fellers yonder! ”

“ THE to men set to work. After the flivver was laid out of sight in the clump of piñon trees and thorny mesquite, the loads were assembled, and within twenty minutes the partners were on their way. What with grub and blankets, rifle and water-bag, Ramsay had all the weight to carry that he wanted, and he faced the prospect of a full day in rocky desert ground with a grimace.
His expectations were entirely fulfilled. Sagebrush led the way, skirting the high and precipitous mesa for a time and then striking directly off toward the hills to the northeast. ”

“ Sagebrush dissented with a grunt. "Pardner, it means the females fight with the men. Now, I jest naturally can't abide that notion nohow. When it comes to puttin' a bullet into a female, I pass. We got to sep'rate them fellers from the females."
"Granted," assented Ramsay at once. "How?"
"There aint but one way out o' this yere cañon—the front way. Let's you and me go back through that hole in the wall and wait. If anybody comes, we got him; if anybody leaves, we got him. Then, come sunup, we lights a fire out beyond. ”