"Payson hurt the girl, Dash" said JW.  "She is gonna have a nasty shiner on that eye.  She has bruises and a gash on her face and her arm is black and blue.  No telling what Sundell will do to Payson when he gets back and finds out.  He ain't gonna like it one bit.  He'll kill Payson for hurting his girl.  Even though Payson kidnapped her, Sundell took the responsibility of protecting her."

 

"Sundell!  You're hit!"  JW exclaimed.

"I know, but we can't stop now.  We need to catch up with the gang."

"Hey, Dash.  Sundell caught some lead when he came back to save me from getting caught," cried JW. 

Dash ran up to Shadow and caught Sundell as he fell off his horse to the ground.  Rosey screamed when she realized Sundell was hurt bad.

"Oh, God, this slug hurts.  Get this lead out of me," moaned Sundell.

"Anybody know how to get a slug out?" questioned Dash.  They all answered no.

"Leave it in him," replied Payson.  "Maybe lead poison will finally kill him!"

"Shut up, Payson.  I know you hate him, but I need every man," said Dash their leader.

 

"Hey mister.  Is that the Dash Cogburn Gang you just brought in?"   Mike asked.

"Sure is.  We tracked them for three days.  Every one of those bastards deserve to hang," he answered.

"There was a real young one with them.  Do you happen to know his name, he looked familiar to me for some reason."

"Yeah.  The kid's name is Sundell.  Don't know anything else about him.  But he's a bad one all right.  He raped the girl they kidnapped.  I can't wait to see him hang and kick his feet.

Mike was concerned about the kid Sundell.  He looked very much like the Sundell that brought him the horses from Yuma.  He gave the kid Sundell two thousand dollars to take back to Yuma for the Flying T2 Rough Stock and Cattle Co.  Now he wondered if his contract ever got fulfilled with that ranch.