Chapter 20 THE MARSHAL'S POSSE

McCalmont backed his team to the buckboard, lifted the waggon tongue to the ring of the yoke bar, and jumped to hitch on the traces, just as Buck reined all standing to report.

"There's a strong posse," says Buck, "coming out from the Mule Pass-maybe sixty riders, and they're shorely burning the trail straight for this ranche."

"Were you seen