As he headed off up Tombstone Canyon, Zach let Rusty set his own pace. Although the gelding seemed refreshed and no longer limped, Zach didn’t want to push the horse too hard. Tombstone was thirty miles from Bisbee by the most direct route, and the day promised to be another scorcher.
As he neared the pass between the two higher massifs of the Mule Mountains, Zach caught up with another team of freighters. Just as Zach and Emily’s benefactor had said yesterday, these freighters were hauling crude ingots of ore to the railroad in Benson. Although their pace was slower than his had been, Zach decided to ride along with them, just in case Jake and his cronies were still searching for Emily and perhaps also for him.
Would they assume he had rescued Emily since he hadn’t been seen in Tombston
