‘Lane bushwhacked him,’ declared Morgan hotly.
‘A-a-a-aw, hell!’ said Noah Evans disgustedly. ‘And yuh call that murder! Ben Leach got what he was a-lookin’ for.’
‘He got bushwhacked by a damn nester!’ snapped Spike.
‘And all this time he gettin’ farther and farther away,’ complained Joe Cave.
‘The question is this,’ said the sheriff thoughtfully. ‘Did Ben Leach do any shootin’?’
He remembered what Lane had said about fixing one of the 6X6 so he wouldn’t navigate for a while.
‘I don’t know about that,’ said Morgan. ‘We didn’t stop to investigate.’
‘Hang ’em first, and investigate afterwards, eh?’ said Noah.
Morgan scowled at Noah, but said nothing. There would be an election next year, and Morgan controlled a lot of votes.
‘What do yuh intend doin’?’ asked Morgan. ‘All this talk don’t do any good. Are you goin’ after that killer or do we have to do it ourselves?’