"That's what I brought you here to see.
It's what we've been waiting for. That is the first outfit of its sort
ever to ride these hills. There have been gangs organized by one brand
or another that rode out and imposed justice of their own, according to
their own ideas--and the next day perpetrated some injustice against
men whose ideas were opposed to theirs. But that little procession
stands for organized law!"

She turned and looked behind her as her ear caught the thud of hoofs
and jangle of equipment. The Three Bar men were just topping the ridge.

They had caught up a number of the horses released from the pasture lot
by the stampede. Calico and her own little horse, Papoose, were among
them. Waddles and Moore brought up the rear with a pack train loaded
with the bed rolls saved from the bunk-house fire.

Harris knew that action, not inaction was the best outlet for her
energies, temporarily smothered by the shock of the raid. It was not
in her nature to sit with folded hands among the ruins of the ranch and
patiently wait for news.

"I thought maybe you'd like to go," he said. "The jaunt will do you
good."

She showed the first sign of interest she had evidenced.

"And we're going to the Breaks," she stated.

"That's where," he said. "We'll order them to give up and stand trial.
They won't. Then we'll clean them out. Hunt them down like rats!
We've only been waiting for folks to wake up to the fact that they were
sick of having the country run by men like Slade and harassed by the
wild bunch--and till after we'd picked up Slade. The way it's
transpired we'd maybe have done better to ride over a week ago."

The little band in the valley was drawing near. She recognized Carp,
Bentley and another Slade man riding with the sheriff at their head.

"What's Bentley doing there?" she asked.

"One of Carp's men," Harris said. "If any of them get away from us
Carp will hound them down. He wears the U. S. badge and won't be
stopped by any feeling about crossing the Utah or Idaho lines.
Rustling is of no interest to him. That's the sheriff's job. But Carp
will round them up for obstructing the homestead laws."

The Three Bar men came up and halted. Harris and the girl changed
mounts and led their men down to join the file of riders below. As she
rode she speculated as to Carlos Deane's sensations if he could but
know that she rode at the head of thirty men to raid the stronghold
Harris had onc