"Hadn't I better just keep right on riding ?" he kept asking some sense within him, but decided at last to return to Delmar.
It was deep night when he reached the camp, and his horse was covered with foam.

Delmar was sitting by the camp fire as he came in from the dark.
"Hello, boy, what's up ?" Mose told him the whole story in a few incoherent phrases.

The old man examined and dressed his wound, but remained curiously silent throughout the story.

At last he said: "See here, my lad; let me tell you, this is serious business.

I don't mean this scratch of a bullet--don't you be uneasy about that; but this whole row is mine.