Now Roman Nose is giving orders.

Hear that yell! They 're off now, riding up stream, lashing their ponies into a run.

All of them?
No; quite a bunch are going back to the coach.

I don't believe they are going to hang around here long though, for they are driving in all their ponies." [Illustration: "No, don't move! The stage has been gutted and set on fire."] "But won't those others come back when they discover we have not gone up the river ?" "I wish I could answer that," he replied earnestly.

"But it all depends on what those devils know of the whereabouts of troops.