Mid-afternoon
Ernie, Tom and Dick ride into their base camp where Herman and Clyde are
waiting for their return. The three men
dismount and remove their saddles, blankets and bridles from their horses. They stake the horses out in areas where they
can graze.
Herman is the first
to speak, “What did you find out?”
Tom replies, “There
is no sheriff and won’t be one for at least three to four weeks. The town has two men coming from Nevada for
interviews and isn’t planning to talk to anyone else until they meet these
dudes.”
Clyde says, “So we
have three to four weeks to make our move before there is any official law in
town.”
“It looks that way,”
said Ernie.”
“Clyde and I were
thinking while you were away. In a
couple of days we want the three of you to go back into town and do a
robbery. We want to see what kind of
local citizen action that generates. It
will tell us a great deal about how much resistance we could face if we rob the
stagecoach. We are wondering if they would
form a posse to come after us. We also
need to find out when the money run comes in.”
Dick replies, “We
should have something planned before we leave camp so the three of us know what
we intend to do and there is no foul up.”
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