Their attention attracted to their comrade by the girl's warning, Shaw and Scotty managed to turn so they could see what was transpiring. And as they beheld the bandit fiend step over their companion's body, their eyes became transfixed with horror.
So atrociously wanton was Red's act that the girl could not stand it.
"Seize him! Grab him!" she pleaded. "If you want to kill him, put a bullet into him—not that way."
But the outlaw's fury knew no bounds.
"Get into the cave—if you don't like it," he hissed.
With a shudder, Rose clapped her hands to her face while the scouts, unable to bear the sight of their comrade going to so awful a death, turned their heads away.
But Providence did not desert the brave Jennings—though his plan to send the terrible outlaw to his well deserved fate had been foiled.
For seconds that seemed eternal, the others awaited the crackling of the brush along the edge and the thump that should announce the fall of the prisoner.
At last, unable longer to bear the strain of suspense, Rosie peered between her fingers.
"He's saved! He's saved!" she shouted, exultantly. "Pedro, get him and bring him to the cave."