I judged they had got to the foot, and was giving it up.

But they didn't yet a while.

They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went.

I crossed over to that side and watched them.

When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to the town.
I knowed I was all right now.