Perry's Bend was the common point for the C 80 and the Double Arrow.

Each of the two ranch contingents accepted the feud as a matter of course, and as a matter of course took sides with their respective towns.

As no better class of fighters ever lived, the trouble assumed Homeric proportions and insured a danger zone well worth watching.
Bar-20's northern line was C 80's southern one, and Skinny Thompson took his turn at outriding one morning after the season's round-up.

He was to follow the boundary and turn back stray cattle.

When he had covered the greater part of his journey he saw Shorty Jones riding toward him on a course parallel to his own and about long revolver range away.