Also he hed with him the five riders who've been guardin' him pretty close of late.

They was Carter, Wright, Jengessen, an' two new riders from Stone Bridge.

I didn't hear their names, but I heard they was handy men with guns an' they looked more like rustlers than riders.

Anyway, there they was, the five all in a row.
"Judge Dyer was tellin' Willie Kern, one of my best an' steadiest boys--Dyer was tellin' him how there was a ditch opened near Willie's home lettin' water through his lot, where it hadn't ought to go.

An' Willie was tryin' to git a word in to prove he wasn't at home all the day it happened--which was true, as I know--but Willie couldn't git a word in, an' then Judge Dyer went on layin' down the law.