Brand Blotters

"Must have camped here last night and while he was asleep the cattle

stampeded down the cañon," Tim hazarded.

"That guess is as good as any. They ce'tainly stomped the life out of him

thorough. Anyhow, Bellamy has met up with his punishment. We'll have to

pack the body back to town, boys," the sheriff told them.

Half an hour later the party filed out to the creosote flats and struck

across country toward Mesa. Flatray was riding pillion behind Tim. His own

horse was being used as a pack saddle.