A red-hot fire was kept up for some little time, but the cowboys no longer held the advantage.
Indeed it began to look muchly as if they were to be driven from their position.
Suddenly all firing ceased.
The cowboy gang were not in sight, nor did they fire another shot.
Clark feared a stratagem or some fatal decoy, and dared not at once order a charge.
But finally he became convinced that the cowboys had evacuated their position and had made a retreat.
Flushed with victory Clark ordered his men to charge.
Up the slope they went with fixed bayonets. But when they cleared the top of the intrenchments, hastily thrown up by the cowboys, it was found that they had gone.
They had departed quite unceremoniously and completely.
Not an article of any kind was left behind.