Thet outfit must hev had six hours the start o' us, didn't they ?" Hamlin nodded.
"Well, then, they could n't a ben far from the Cimarron when the storm come.

They 'd be safe enough under the bluffs; have wood fer a fire, and lay thar mighty comfortable.

That's whar them bucks are, all right.

Why, damn it, man, we 've got to get through.

'T ain't just our fool lives that's at stake.