The Pony Rider Boys in Montana; Or, The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail

e'd better keep them out of t

es

told

on the west side of the range. I saw to

what they were planning to do. Yet he knew that if he listened long enough

l kill every sheep in the country before he'll le

his head proper like to d

him a bit," admitted the leader

he thing c

hat over. Perhaps the same night they get in

e foreman cor

heep on north. That many will clean up the range right straight ahead of us for more'n a hundred miles,

ions laugh

k loose there's going to be fun, now I tell you. That's the time we get busy. We ought to be able to get a thousand of them anyhow. Before next morning we'll be so far down toward the Big Horn range that they won't catch us.

ey won't do it if I can help it." Yet be realized how powe

atter them, and then these men were going to make off with all they could drive away. It did not seem to the listening boy that su

n, but he had heard enough to enable him to give the

argely with the cattle men-he had looked down on the sheep industry and f

lan ruthlessly to slaughter the inoffensive little animals passed his comprehen

f a camp in the foothills," said a voice. "Thought mebby that might be the o

now the one you mean. Yes, I to

alizing that the men referred to the camp of the Pony Rider

ut what

in the bunch so far as I could see. He was a tall gent with

not repres

, laughing softly. "That hits off the Prof

t were th

fellow. "We don't need to bother about them. They're out here with s

d Tad. "Perhaps one of them may if he has the good

the plan

e? I'll remember t

t giving away of the game. You want to start by telling them you hear Boss Simms is bringing in ten thousand head of sheep, and that he's going to graze them up th

what

ing to teach Boss Simms a lesson and stampede his flock to-morrow or next night. Say you hear

uff. Who do you

to making any bad breaks. Right after the job is over, besides the sheep we get for our own herd, there'll be a few thousand lay

es

Sisters and I'll be able to give you

hat they'll be wise to what the game i

table law abiding rancher, I am," laughed the man with the red beard. "Don't you

s to st

rning. We'll get a rasher of bacon and some hot coffee, then we'll light out for the valley. You know you don't have to

But that does not make so much difference. Only if I did know, Mr. Simms might be able to have them arrested

ing comes along. I came across bear tracks a few m

I," thou

hree or four Crow braves with us on the

skins doing down here, off th

better'n their own," laughed Bluff. "Guess there's no need of

have the most surprising of surprises t

tered, had drawn his body close up to the edge of t

th face, glistened in the light of the camp fire. As the men rose to prepare for t

nable to tell afterward, but instantly Tad was over

n his clothes, righting the boy's body, permitting

e felt that he would land safely, providing he did not turn again and land on his head instead of

, but did not catch t

laimed Bluff, spri

don

e-o

hoped to take them so by surprise that they would hesitate for the

ged forward and he fell sprawling at the very f

's a man!" roa

sprang for the prostr