"That is, if they aren't off chasing them," she added.
"Do you think they'd do that while it is so dark?" Jack asked.
"Goodness, I don't know. There's no accounting for what that dad of mine will do once he gets started."
"Well, it'll begin to get light in a half-hour or so," Bob told them glancing at his watch.
The coming dawn was just beginning to lift the darkness when they heard the beating of hoofs.
"There're coming," Sue cried, leading the way to the porch, and in about ten minutes Jeb and two of the men swung themselves from their dripping horses.
"You all safe?" was his first question.
"Right side up and a yard wide," Sue replied.
"Good. They got young Royce."
"Bad?" Sue's voice disclosed her anxiety.