with the herd on the trail early this morning, ( Slim failed to show up last night, so we couldn't build a fire this morning, he has the matches, So no coffe.) we may have made a slight direction mistake so no Dunning in sight but there is a camp in the distance with smoke coming up from the fire, the fellars tighten up the herd and keep a moving, a rider approches from the dirction of the camp,