"Are you perfectly safe, Sam?" asked Dick, riding up.
"Yes, although I had a narrow escape," and the youngest Rover pointed to where the bullet had grazed his shoulder. "What of the others?"
"All safe and sound," sang out Tom, coming up. "And James Monday and a big posse are after Sack Todd and his crowd hot-footed."
"Shall we join in?" asked Songbird.
"I can't go another step," answered Dick. "I am more than tired," and he sank in a heap on the saddle.
"You boys stay here, and we'll fix those rascals," cried a man of the posse. "You have done enough."
"I guess we have," said Tom. "We are safe and sound, and that is the main thing, so far as we are concerned."
Here let me add a few words more and then bring to a close this tale of "The Rover Boys on the Plains."
Utterly worn out, the boys remained where they were until noon of the day which was now dawning. At a great distance, they heard pistol and gun shots, and they knew that some sort of a fight must be going on.
They were just preparing to move for town, when they saw two of the posse returning with three prisoners, each disarmed and with his hands bound behind him. One of the prisoners was Puller and another Andy Jimson.