If you would not thwart them in accomplishing what they have set out to do, you must go carefully; which means that you must not run to their aid with your camp-wagons and your saddle-horses, so they can gather the cattle again and drive them back where they belong.

You would not be helping them.

They would get the cattle a little easier and a little quicker--and lose their claims." "But doggone it, Blake, them boys have lived right here at the Flying U--why, this has been their home, yuh might say.

They ain't like the general run of punchers that roam around, workin' for this outfit and for that; they've stuck.

Why, doggone it, what they done here when I got hurt in Chicago and they was left to run themselves, why, that alone puts me under obligations to help 'em out in this scrape.