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Choctaw looks at the deputy and spits out.

- Damn it, Jack!!! You owe me a pair of boots. But yer right. We must go before anyone else can look us leaving the place. There are some money in the horses?

While he was talking Choctaw goes to Jack and the horses

-Yep, Choctaw, Jack answered. -I took our share of the Mormon caravan yesterday, after the meeting. I was smellin´trouble ya know... Wasn´t gonna take any chances. It ain´t much, but I´m sure we can find somethin´further south. Far from Delaware.

Jack Dekker looked at the dead deputy again. And the Marshal!

Ed Stein was kinda off his mental reservation. A bloody loco!

The halfblooded gets on the horse, gets a cigarrette and looks to Jack

- Let's go compadre, the bitches are waiting!

Choctaw Lee and Jack Dekker mounted their horses, and rode away as fast as they could. No goodbyes, no looking back. They had had a good run with the Lee clan and Ed Stein, but it was time to move forward. They both knew that the cold blooded killing of the US Marshal and the deputies would mean trouble. And that is exactly what happened...

James Lee married a Chickasaw woman which gave him the "right” to ranch in the Chickasaw Nation. Brothers, Tom and Pink helped him with the ranch, located on the Red River near Delaware Bend and just east of Thackerville. But, the Lee Brothers weren’t really in the mood to do any "real” ranching; rather, they would confiscate the herds of their neighbors. The Lee Ranch soon became a safe haven for bandits and outlaws traveling between the Chickasaw Nation and Texas.

In late April, 1885, when Jim Roff was checking his cattle, he noticed a group of several men rounding up a small herd. As he rode toward them, the men fled, leaving a cloud of dust behind them. Roff found that the cattle were marked with a number of brands from neighboring ranches. Deciding to investigate further, Roff hid in a nearby ravine, and before long, the rustlers returned and herded the cattle south. Roff wasted no time telling the story to his neighbors, who, along with U.S. Marshal James Guy, went after the culprits. On May 1, 1885, a five man posse made up of Marshal Guy, Bill Kirsksey, Frances Mathes, and Andy and James Roff, followed the cattle trail to Delaware Bend, right up to the Lee Ranch.

As the posse carefully approached the log cabin, they noted that gun portholes had been cut into the side of the building and called out to the occupants. Ed Stein, Lees’ brother-in-law, responded by directing them to the rear of the cabin. But, it was a trap. The posse men were ambushed as a hail of lead came forth from the cabin, killing Jim Roff and Bill Kirksey instantly, both having two bullets through their body. Andy Roff, badly wounded, made his way to a nearby tree where he sat down and leaned against it. Later, it was found that two more shots were blasted into the injured man – one through his chest and the other, into the lower part of his body.

The other members of the posse were able to escape to tell of the ambush, saying they believed there were ten to twelve men in the cabin. Thought to be hiding inside were Jim, Tom, and Pink Lee, another member of the Lee clan, Ed Stein, Tom Cole, Jim Copeland, Della Humby, Jack Dekker and the Dyer brothers. Two days after the ambush, a mob converged on the Lee Ranch and burned every building. The Dyer brothers were soon tracked down and lynched by a vigilante group. Rewards totaling some $7,000 were posted for the Lee brothers and Ed Stein, dead or alive and the hunt for the killers was on.

Rewards were posted for all participants of the massacre, including Choctaw Lee and Jack Dekker. But the main focus was on catching Ed Stein and the Dyer Brothers. The next days and weeks the two rode south, as far away from Delaware as they could... And then they needed to maintain a profile. Lay low. Wait for the storm to settle.

Maybe look for another career...