The only store at Sweetwater Bridge did a rushing business for several days.

The returned stock-hunters drank, and gambled and fought.

The Indian ponies, which had been distributed among the captors, passed from hand to hand at almost every deal of the cards.

There seemed to be no limit to the rioting, and carousing; revelry reigned supreme.

On the third day of the orgie, Slade, who had heard the news, came up to the bridge and took a hand in the "fun," as it was called.