"
"Galloway's on the other side?"
"No. Brocky said tell you Galloway hadn't shown up yet. We think he
didn't expect things to get started so soon. One of Brocky's men
riding in a little while ago from the other side of San Juan thought
that he had seen Galloway and some one that looked like a girl riding
with him toward the old crossroads where the Denbar place used to be.
Brocky thinks maybe you can come in and head Galloway off and bust up
the whole play that way."
So Galloway and "some one who looked like a girl" had ridden toward the
old Denbar cross-roads. And Galloway had not yet joined his forces.
"Elmer," said Norton quickly, "ride on to San Juan. Tell John Engle
what you have told me about Galloway. Tell him . . ."
"I won't!" cried Elmer, on the verge of hysteria. "I won't do it. Do
it yourself; send some one else. I want to go with you; I want a
rifle, I tell you! Didn't I see Tommy Rudge go down with a bullet in
his belly? Didn't I see Denny when the Kid shot him?"
Norton laid a hand on Elmer's arm, speaking quietly.
"Listen, Elmer," he said. "We will do what we can where Brocky is.
But that isn't all of the devilment to-night. Galloway got Florrie
away somehow; she was the one riding with him toward the crossroads.
It's up to you to ride on and ride like the devil and tell John
Engle.
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