night about midnight
About that time the Wells-Fargo Express Company feared a hold-up on the railroad , and Jenkins and Tex , glad to leave the scene of their water-cure adventure , secured positions as guards and soon dropped out of polite society in Horse Head as represented by the gang around the `` Bucket of Blood '' and its immediate vicinity . -LSB- Illustration : '' _ They gave the money to Jackson , the Cross J wagon boss _ '' -RSB- The next time they came to town the `` Cross J '' boys chipped in a dollar each and gave it to old `` Dad , '' the cook , counted the luckiest `` wheel '' player in the bunch , who took the coin and with a burst of good luck soon ran it up to something over a hundred dollars at the roulette wheel . This entire amount he gave to Jackson the wagon boss , who went down to Chinese Louie 's place , and poured it out on the counter before the heathen 's astonished eyes , as a peace offering from the `` shoot 'em up '' crowd that had wrecked his place . That night about midnight Louie and his assistant set out to the boys the very swellest `` feed '' his culinary abilities could prepare , and the affair of the shooting up of Horse Head and the putting of the marshal and his aid-de-camp to soak under the bridge in the cold nasty waters of the Rio Puerco was thus amicably settled over the viands that the Chinaman furnished . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- -LSB- Illustration -RSB- Transcriber 's notes : The following is a list of changes made to the original . The first line is the original line , the second the corrected one . she 's a-grazin ' and ' it 's a sure shot the calf 's hid away in she 's a-grazin ' an ' it 's a sure shot the calf 's hid away in It was the end of the road for the blue roan .