Nine men rode out of Freedom, nine men with just one idea, to reach the scene before their community could be branded for murder. They left in the cool of the evening and they rode fast. changing horses twice before they reached Tuba City.
Neill, hoping and expecting that the men of Freedom would be with him, had arranged for horses to be waiting for them at Tuba. Yet swiftly as they rode, he knew there was hardly once chance in a thousand that they would arrive in time.
But he was banking on the courage of the man Keelock, and of a woman whom he had never met.
(from The Key-Lock Man, by Louis L'Amour)
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