Grouch—Cowboy on Star and Moon ranch.
Slippery Nig—Half-breed scout, with a grievance against Scalping Louie, and is called by Deadshot to run him down.
CHAPTER I.
A MIDNIGHT ALARM.
“O-u-e-e!”
Piercing and shrill, from the tense stillness of the night sounded this eerie wail.
In terrified alarm, Sam Bowser rose in his bed to his elbow.
As he remained thus, trying to decide whether the awesome shriek was a cry of distress from some human being or was an imagining of his mind, his wife awoke.
“What was that?” she gasped, excitedly.
“You heard it, too?”