Slowly the young man rose to his feet, standing beside the body, his gray eyes fastened upon Farnham.

Here was a condition of affairs he must decide upon for himself, decide instantly, decide in spite of law, in spite of everything.
"He appears to be rather badly hurt; not seriously, I think, but the man is unconscious, and in no condition to be removed," he said, managing to hold his voice to a strange quiet.

"I consider myself his prisoner, and shall remain with him until he becomes fit to travel.
Farnham, I do not acknowledge your deputyship, and if you attempt to arrest me it will be at your peril.

There are four of us here against you, but we 'll give you a chance--go back to your own! Not a word, if you care to live! Go, damn you--go!" They stood and watched him, until his slender figure disappeared behind the fringe of cedars.

Then Hicks and Winston, neither man speaking a word, tenderly lifted the wounded sheriff from off the rocks, and bore him back into the shelter of the cabin..