Croff

Croff found a saddlebag with some papers in it, which was in the remains of their camp.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

They must depend upon Croff and Webb having successfully taken over the sentry posts.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

There was Larange, coming back from the horse lines, Webb, the Tennesseean from the mountains, Croff and Weatherby,

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Drew, Kirby, Croff, and Webb circled around a wagon, bringing the driver to a halt, his mule team standing with drooping heads, blowing and puffing so that their ribs showed as bony bars through their wet hides.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

And Drew saw Croff swing from the saddle, draw his belt knife to cut the hoof from a dead horse.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Croff and Webb -- and then he, too, as soon as he was able to sit a saddle.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Croff and Webb holed up on one side of the lane well apart; Drew and Kirby did the same on the other.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Croff reached to bring into the firelight a belt strap.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Croff brought them out unerringly behind a sagging rail fence well masked with the skeleton brush of the season.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Croff brought them into a camping site he had chosen for just such use.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958