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eyes to what the road could tell them, else already the covert would be smoking battle.
Hardly had Original and his companions caught their breath when sharp on the morning's stillness came a volley of shots from the direction of the outlaw settlement.
"Hark you!" Timberline exploded. "Dorson an' his pore yearlin' idjits took the wrong road—come over the east shoulder by the Bar C road 'stead of past Tisdale's."
"And where does that leave us?" Original added, his lips twisting in a wry smile. "Trapped I 'd say."
