I was now enabled to reduce the cattle guard from four to two men, which was a great relief to them.
There was a cattle guard ahead to afford some protection from the storm churning along the river.
It rattled across the cattle guard and through the new-unprotected and open gate in the barbed wire fence.
In the cattle guard was the sole of a shoe, evidently torn off as one of the fleeing men escaped his assailants.
In the vicinity of the cattle guard the soil was disarranged and there were shoe marks near the cattle guard.
Midway between the platform and the cattle guard they saw the Duke lean in his saddle and snatch the white favor from her hand.