Bud was coming with reenforcements. Ted had dropped to the road under
the feet of the terrified ponies, and it was a miracle that he was not
trampled to death.
All about him the fight was going on.
Bud and Andy Bowles, and about twenty men whom they had hastily got
together, had come to the rescue, and the gamblers' gang was soon on the
run. They had not been able to get near Norris, for Kit had fought them
off with his one good arm until, finding themselves attacked in the
rear, the would-be lynchers ran for their lives.
The fight was swift and decisive, and several men lay in the dust when
it was over, for Andy Bowles and Bud and Ben had fought like tigers.
When Ted recovered consciousness again he found himself lying in the
road beside Shan Rhue, who had been knocked senseless by a blow from the
butt of Bud's pistol.
Ted staggered to his feet.
"Where's Stella?" he cried.
The other boys looked around. Just before the fight began they had seen
her, Kit, and the old man, but now she was gone.
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