He had lost his own.
"We've got to catch that fellow," finally resolved the marshal.

There was a dead silence.
"He's got a pistol," ventured some one.
"How do you know ?" demanded Mr.Crow keenly.

"Did y' see it ?" "He couldn't ha' killed that feller 'thout a gun." "That's a fact," agreed Anderson Crow.

"Well, we've got to get him, anyhow.

I call for volunteers! Who will join me in the search ?" cried the marshal bravely.
"I hate to go to Crow's Cliff after him," said George Ray.