"Just the same if anything happens to him I'll never forgive myself."
"Nor I for that matter," Jack agreed.
As they turned back to go to the house they; saw two men riding in through the gateway.
"There's Slim and Slats and they seem some excited," Sue said.
That the two boys were excited became more apparent as, their horses reeking with sweat, they pulled up in front of the corral.
"Where's the fire?" Sue asked.
"It's worse nor fire," Slats asserted as he slid to the ground.
"Tell us quick," Sue cried impatiently.
"It's more cattle stealin', that's what 'tis," Slim declared as he undid his saddle girth.
"Where and when?" Sue was now fully as excited as the men.