ON PAROLE In this strange house party, a truce was tacitly agreed.

It seemed sufficient that the future for the time should take care of itself.
Dunwody's injury left Clayton practically leader of the Missourians.

His party gravitated toward him, while opposite sat the two prisoners, Carlisle and Kammerer, composed and silent, now and then exchanging a glance with each other, but making no spoken comment.
Dunwody, in his own room, was looking into the seriousness of his injury, with the old trapper Eleazar, once more summoned as readiest physician.

Eleazar shook his head when he had stripped off the first bloody bandages from the limb.

"She'll been broke," was his dictum.