"Scoot--it won't take but a minute to find out for sure.
Go on, Pink." "So help me Josephine, I'll kill that same Andy Green if he's lied about it," Pink declared, while he climbed the fence.
In three minutes he was back, and before he had said a word, his face confirmed the bad news.

Their eyes besought him for details, and he gave them jerkily.

"Automobile run over him.

He ain't dead, but they think--Chip and the Little Doctor are going to catch the night train.
You go haze in the team, Happy.

And give 'em a feed of oats, Chip said." Irish and Big Medicine, seeing the three standing soberly together there, and sensing something unusual, came up and heard the news in stunned silence.