In saddle, Tom joined the marching party.
"You don't seem to think us a very hard crowd to guard," remarked 'Gene Black curiously.

"Why don't you call off the men you posted around the thickets" "I didn't post any," Fulsbee answered simply.

"I sent these two men of mine running around the thicket.

Then they had to come together and attend to handcuffing you fellows." "And were you the only man who had the drop on us ?" gasped 'Gene Black.
"I was," Dave Fulsbee responded.

"If you fellows hadn't had such bad nerves, you could have escaped.