Chapter 12Iron Head and most of his warriors joined the sheriff and me as we made for the distant rocks. We neither saw nor heard anything as we neared the heap of boulders. We arrived without incident to find Middleton and his men had decamped, heading west. In the far distance, I glimpsed a faint blur of dust. They were traveling at speed. Good way to ruin a horse.
“Hightailing it pretty good,” Landreth observed. “Heading for that cavalry column.”
Iron Head permitted a frown to settle on his features. “How sure is it them soldiers gonna be on our side?”
I reined Yellow Thunder around and moved to go meet Winter Bird and the herd. “I could be wrong.” I let that hang in the air a minute. “But I could be right.”
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We quit early to let the cattle graze. The men went about their ta
