And Haines has told us that when
he was set free Barry said he would get him again. And Barry did get
him again. Remember that, and he got all the rest of Silent's gang,
and now there lies Jim Silent dead. They's two things to remember. The
first is that Whistlin' Dan has rid away without any shootin' irons on
his hip. That looks as if he's come to the end of his long trail. The
second is that he was a bunkie of Tex Calder, an' a man Tex could
trust for the avengin' of his death is good enough for me."
There was a pause after this speech, and during the quiet the
cowpunchers were passing from hand to hand the marshal's badge which
Calder, as he died, had given to Dan. The bright small shield was a
more convincing proof than a hundred arguments. The bitterest of
Dan's enemies realized that the crimes of which he was accused were
supported by nothing stronger than blind rumour. The marshal's badge
and the dead body of Jim Silent kept them mute. So an illegal judge
and one hundred illegal jurymen found Whistling Dan "not guilty."
Buck Daniels took horse and galloped for the Cumberland house with the
news of the verdict. He knew that Whistling Dan was there.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE WILD GEESE
So when the first chill days of the late autumn came the four were
once more together, Dan, Kate, Black Bart, and Satan.
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