Then they listened with absorption to Jean's brief story.
"Wal, that lets us in," said his father.

"I wish we had more time.
Reckon I'd done better to listen to you boys an' have my men close at hand.

Jacobs happened to ride over.

That makes five of us besides the women." "Aw, dad, you don't reckon they'll round us up heah ?" asked Guy Isbel.
"Boys, I always feared they might," replied the old man.

"But I never really believed they'd have the nerve.