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Instead of doing so , they fell on Rebstock and demanded that if he were boss he make good and send Du Sang out . Of all this commotion the railroad men saw only the outward indications . As the excitement grew on both sides there was perhaps a little more of display in the way the cattle were run in , especially when some long-lost bunch was brought to light and welcomed with yells from the centre . A steer was killed at noon , everybody fed , and the line moved forward . The wind , which had slept in the sunshine of the morning , rose in the afternoon , and the dust whirled in little clouds where men or animals moved . From the centre two men had gone back with the cattle gathered up to that time , and Bill Dancing , with Smith , Stormy Gorman , and two of the cowboys , were heading a draw to cross to the north side of the Cache , when three men rode out into the road five hundred yards ahead , and halted . Whispering Smith spoke : `` There come our men ; stop here .