“It’s what is left of him; that’s the steer that the Comanche brought down when he took a shot at you.”
“Ah, this is the place where you joined me?”
“Percisely.”
“But where is he––that is, his body?”
“They’ve took it off; you know how hard the Comanches try to carry away their dead and wounded.”
“I saw a proof of that while hunting for Thunderbolt, but I didn’t think they would be able to find this one.”
“They must have heard the shot and his cry, and though we made things hum about them, they took time to look into it and bear the body away.”
“I wonder now whether that could have been Wygwind,” said Avon, referring to the notorious leader of whom we have spoken.
“No,” was the decisive reply of Ballyhoo.