Kill him,--an' anybody that's with him! Wipe out the whole bunch! I'll stay here an' make the girl tell me where the coin is.

Get goin', an' go fast, for Sanderson will travel some!" The girl heard the boots of the men clatter on the floor as they went out.

Listening intently, she could hear the thudding of their horses' hoofs as they fled.

She shrank back from the door, looking hard at it, wondering if it would hold, if it would resist Dale's efforts to burst it open--as she knew he would try to do.
She wished, now, that she had followed Sanderson's suggestion about riding after Williams.

This situation would not have been possible, then.
Working feverishly, she piled against the door all the available articles and objects she could find.