The Ring Tailed Panther greeted him with great warmth, shaking his hand and saying: "John! John! We're awful glad you've come 'cause there's to be a lot of roarin' an' tearin' an' clawin' to be done." The man smiled and replied in his quiet tones: "We know it and that's why we've come.

Now, I suggest that while we leave ten men at each ford, we hold a meeting in the village.

Everything we have is at stake and as one Texan is as good as another we ought to talk it over." "Who is he ?" asked Ned of Obed.
"That's John Moore.

He's been a great Indian fighter and one of the defenders of the frontier.

I think it likely that he'll be our leader in whatever we undertake.