Later, after he'd hauled the corpses to the undertaker's and arranged for their burials using the outlaws' horses and guns as payment, Longtree hit the trail. He rode up to the camp of the Flathead and gave Swift Fox the horse and gun back, thanked the man.
And then he was gone.
Longtree didn't like Bad River. It had a stink of death and corruption about it. And if the truth be told, there were few frontier towns that did not. And the reality of this brought a bleak depression on him.
So he rode.
He headed east to Fort Phil Kearny where orders from the U.S. Marshals Office would be awaiting him.
And that night, the air stank of running blood.