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bell which had been cut from the horse’s neck, a pair of 
hobbles the removal of which had caused the delay that 
had saved us and the last one entirely freed from the animal 
which it bound, and also a pair of fine rawhide lariats 
dropped by the thieves in their sudden retreat. 
All abo%@ were marks and tracks showing what had gone 
on. We then followed the trail of their animals back up the 
valley toward our camp and discovered that these two men 
had walked all the way from their camp four miles above 
Indian file and that their ponies had been brought around 
to them through a circuitous trail in the hills. Tom and 
John rode up the valley and found their camp soon after 
while Chittenden and I went up on the mesa above to do our 
day’s work. The boys were determined to raise quite a noise 
in the wickiup of the supposed guilty redmen but felt in¬ 
clined to give up the idea when they discovered instead of 
four men seen yesterday, eight fierce-looking devils crouch¬ 
ing over a pipe and looking forbidding enough in their sullen, 
stoic mood. They were neither communicative nor polite, and 
the two boys came away impressed with the notion, as Tom put 
it, "that they were determined to give us another deal yet. !t 
The audacity of the thieving pirates went ahead of anything 
we had ever heard of. Not only did they stay all night boldly 
