I counsel you to hand over these men to me without resistance.

You know what happened when your sons defied the law before, and what will happen now if you refuse compliance." "Yah!" the old man shouted.

"Do you suppose we are going to give in to five men?
Not if we know it.

Now, I warn you, move yourself off while I let you; else you will get a bullet in you before I count three." "Very well, then.

You must take the consequences," the sheriff replied, and at once called the party to fall back.
"We must dismount," he said in answer to Vincent's look of surprise.
"They would riddle us here on horseback in the open.