Thar he goes to grass!" Hamersley, as the others on the same side of the corral, were under the belief that the shot had been a miss; for the Indian at whom it was aimed still stuck to his horse, and was carried for some distance on in curving career.

Nor did the animal show any sign of having been hit.
But the rider did.

While engaged in the effort of sending his arrow, the savage had exposed his face, one arm, and part of the other.

Ere he could withdraw them, Walt's bullet had struck the arm that supported him, breaking the bone close to the elbow-joint.

He has clung on with the tenacity of a shot squirrel, knowing that to let go will be certain death to him.