Winter let go a little but the calendar said there was still some time left. They stopped and told the new deputy, Joe McCarthy, about the Jennings situation. He agreed it was good to have it settled. Joe had not heard anything about his predecessor’s whereabouts. He told Chet he felt Randall Cates was GTT. In other words—Gone to Texas. The next stop was three days later at Windmill Ranch. Susie and Sarge, along with their crew, sat around the fireplace and Chet told them a less grizzly story about the murders and how they eventually found the evidence. Everyone shook their heads and a few said they should have hung him right away. “Oh, we need to present a better picture than that. People back east feel we are all as mad as Jennings. We need law and order to prevail if we ever want to become a state.” Later he and Susie spoke privately in the kitchen. “Chet, does anyone really know what all you do for the territory?” she asked. He shook his head. “That doesn’t matter. I have ranches to run, and people count on us to provide them a life.”
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