All except the leader.
He turned his eyes from Snell to his companion, and then to Patsy, and remarked, calmly:
“You lie—every one of ye.”
Then he addressed his men.
“We won’t go off at half-cock,” said he; “these geezers hev done us dirt, but mebbe we’d better talk it over afore we do anything.”
He spoke then to the sentinels.
“Stay here and use yer guns, ef any of ’em tries to scoot. We’ll go further down the gulch and chin about it.”
The sentinels nodded and the leader and the rest of his men went down the ravine until they were out of sight.
Now and then their voices could be heard as they argued, but what they said could not be told.
Once they sent a couple of men up to take Snell’s companion, Jim Leonard, down to talk with him.