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"GENIUS! IT'S ABSOLUTE GENIUS! " Inish Scull said, when told that his great warhorse, Hector, had been stolen. "The man took Hector right out from under my nose. The other horses, now that took skill. But stealing Hector? That's genius!"
It was hardly the reaction the rangers had expected. The four men on guard at the time-Long Bill Coleman, Pea Eye Parker, Neely Dickens, and Finch Seeger-were lined up with hangdog looks on their faces. All of them expected the firing squad; after all, they had let the most important horse in Texas get stolen.