Skedaddled

Both marshals had pledged to one another that not another soul would be injured or killed--not on their watch--by Damien.
The urgent questions now are where do we look? How do we find him? What if he is running in the opposite direction? How would we know?
The answer is always the same: To catch a criminal one must think like a criminal.
That's why Buster Gibbs and Ruston Lovell are now heading back up the Chisholm. The criminal escaped from them in the southern tip of Texas. There was no place else to go. He must be going north back up the Chisholm.