"I wanted to shoot long before," said Harry, "but I remembered—and waited until yuh said the word. Yuh shore stopped that derringer o' Stover's."
"Wheah's the guard?"
"Tied up outside."
"Bueno. I rode down heah slow, so yo'd have plenty o' time to get posted. I suspected treachery of some kind to-night. But it was a surprise to see the majah heah. What time is it?"
"After two. The moon's gone down. Where to, now?"
"To Mariposa. We can get theah by dawn, and if the boys are ready we can turn the trick."
"Then let's go, Kid!"
Five minutes later the two were pounding the trail northward toward the
Rio Grande!