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`` Taking the Sweetwater cutout to the Butte , I reckon , '' Howard surmised . They traveled all day , except for a stop about ten o'clock for breakfast , and another late in the afternoon , to rest the horses . At night , they put up at a ranch house , and were in the saddle again early in the morning . Before noon , they struck a telephone line , and Fraser called up Brandt at a ranch . `` Hello ! This Sheriff Brandt ? Lieutenant Fraser , of the Texas Rangers , is talking .