d Darry Nodley!" exclaimed Allen, as he glanced down the
stony trail. "They are coming here, too!"

"They belong to the gang," said Barnaby Winthrop.

"Reckon ez how we can receive 'em all right," put in Ike Watson, dryly.

As quickly as possible Barnaby Winthrop was provided with firearms.

"My gracious!"

It was Allen who let out the cry, loud enough for those who were
approaching to hear.

"What's up?" asked his uncle.

"Look back of them."

All did so, and then a shout went up. There only a few hundred yards to
the rear, were Chet and Paul, trying their best to run down the horse
thieves, whom they had discovered but a short five minutes before.

"We've got 'em corralled!" said Watson, grimly.

"Look, there is Jack Blowfen, too!" ejaculated Allen, as the cowboy also
came into view.

"Halt!"

Ike Watson uttered the command.

He ran into the open, followed by the others.

A shout went up from Saul Mangle and Darry Nodley, and then another from
those in the rear.

"There is Allen!"

"There is Uncle Barnaby!"

"Capture the horse thieves!"

The two rascals were bewildered and paused, not knowing which way to
turn.

They were quickly surrounded, and it was old Ike Watson who commanded
them to throw down their weapons.

At first they felt inclined to refuse, but a glance at the stern faces
about them caused them to comply.

"The jig is up!" muttered Saul Mangle, and Nodley groaned inwardly.

There was another joyous greeting between uncle and nephews when Paul
and Chet rode up.

In the meanwhile Jack Blowfen assisted Ike Watson in making prisoners of
Mangle and Nodley. The latter asked for his wife and seemed disappointed
to learn she could not share his captivity.

Allen and Barnaby Winthrop were glad to learn that Captain Grady was a
prisoner.

"When I am done with him I warrant he'll not give any of us further
trouble," said the uncle of the boys.

Before the party left the vicinity, Saul Mangle and Nodley were
searched, and from them were taken the seven hundred dollars which had
been stolen from the ranch home, as related at the beginning of this
story.

The prisoners were removed to Daddy Wampole's hotel, and later on were
placed in the hands of the sheriff. The sheriff also took into custody
Captain Hank Grady and Lou Bluckburn. The colored man, Jeff Jones, was,
by the advice of Chet and Paul, allowed to go his own way on promise to
turn over a new leaf. Slavin was taken to a ho