It was too dark to see how many were in the machine.

They heard the 'auto' go down the canyon, again, later.

No one noticed the man on horseback.

Three Company men will be up here at daybreak." "Good boy," said Brian Oakley, again.

And then, for a little, no sound save the soft clinking of bit or bridle-chain in the darkness broke the hush that fell over the little group.