"I'm sure glad your cell phone worked here, otherwise I'd have had to ride Buck back to the ranch to call this in," Monty said. "And it sounds like they got your message, because if you listen carefully, you can hear the sirens already. They have quite a piece to come, but this kind of excitement happens so rarely out here that I'm sure they'll be driving as fast as they can on these roads. If you want to hold a gun on this guy, I'll go up the road a little way to flag them down since the truck is blocking the road and they may be really flying."
"He doesn't look like he's up to doing much," Laura said, looking at the pale face of the man on the ground,, shivering from shock. "But I've never handled a gun, Monty, so it's better if you keep an eye on him and I'll go flag them down."
"Okay, just stand well clear of the roadway so they don't run you down," Monty advised. "I know some of those boys, and they're wild drivers when they have an excuse like this."
So Laura went down the road about fifty yards, on the side towards town, and before too long the sirens grew louder and louder, and she could see the reflection of red and blue flashing lights in the night sky. Then they appeared, two sheriffs' cruisers first, then an ambulance, and Laura waved her arms frantically to slow them down before they reached the intersection. When they had passed, braking to a stop, she trotted back too to be where the action was.
"Hi, Monty. Your truck looks like it was in an accident, but the woman who called said there'd been a shooting. So what have we got here?" asked the sheriff, who had been driving the first car.
"What you've got is the man responsible for the shooting at the Cow Palace earlier tonight, if you've heard about that," replied Monty, shaking the sheriff's hand.
"Heard about it?" exclaimed the sheriff. "There's been nothing else on the radio all night. There's a huge manhunt on right now all over the state, because they think they've identified the man who did it. And you say this is that man?"
"I guess we're supposed to say "allegedly" this is the man, but we were right in the building at the Cow Palace when he rushed out and forced us to take him out in the front compartment of my stock trailer, and he held a gun on us until we brought him here," Monty explained.