It would be a sort of return to the wild.
And here the first trouble arose with Injun; that of leaving his six-guns behind.

It took some time to coax him to do this; to entrust them to the safe in the ranch house.

But, that done, it was necessary only to get Mr.Sherwood's permission and to make the preparations.

Mr.
Sherwood was not in the ranch house, nor in the bunk house, where Bill Jordan was starting one of his lengthy yarns.

Whitey paused there for a moment.
"What I don't know about boys a tongue-tied man could tell in half a second," Bill was saying.
"A tongue-tied man couldn't tell nothin' in half a second," objected Shorty Palmer.
"That's just what I mean," Bill said.