Tonya had taken the children and traveled the same trail they had taken two weeks earlier. She heard the shooting and was beside herself with worry.
She wanted to go back to Steve and help, but she had the children to worry about. She wanted to sit down and cry for the trouble she had caused him, but knew there was no time for that now.
Thinking as she walked, she listened to the reports of the guns. The smaller reports first and then the report of forty- four. There was no mistaking that. The reports from the smaller caliber pistols and then the forty- four again. Then came a shot from the seven-millimeter rifle, which she had heard on more than one occasion.
This made her smile slightly. She kept walking for an hour still worrying and then she jerked when she heard the rifle report ag
