"Last night over at the Bar Z."
"How many?"
"Close onter 150, so Herb Walters told us. We met him 'bout five miles out."
"Do they think it was the Hains Gang?" Jack asked anxiously.
"Course it was. Who else could it been?" Slim looked at the boy with a glance of pity.
"But we met Hains and his gang up in the mountains along about noon," Sue told them.
"You what?" Both the men asked the question together.
"You heard me the first time. I said we met Hains and his gang up in the mountains.
"Well, of all the horned toads," Slats began but Slim interrupted.
"Where was they goin' at?"