"
"Why won't we?"
"I've seen Silent's hoss, and I've ridden him. If the rest of his gang
have the same kind of hoss flesh, you c'n never catch him with that
cayuse of yours."
"Maybe not today," said Calder, "but in two days we'll run him down.
Seven horses can't travel as two in a long chase."
They started out across the basin, keeping to the tracks of Silent's
horses. It was the marshal's idea that the outlaws would head on a
fairly straight line for the railroad and accordingly when they lost
the track of the seven horses they kept to this direction. Twice
during the day they verified their course by information received once
from a range rider and once from a man in a dusty buck-board. Both of
these had sighted the fast travelling band, but each had seen it pass
an hour or two before Calder and Dan arrived. Such tidings encouraged
the marshal to keep his horse at an increasing speed; but in the
middle of the afternoon, though black Satan showed little or no signs
of fatigue, the cattle-pony was nearly blown and they were forced to
reduce their pace to the ordinary dog-trot.
CHAPTER XVII
THE PANTHER'S PAW
Evening came and still they had not sighted the outlaws.
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