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Juve now knew the answer to the riddle of the bandit's disappearance. Within an ace of arrest, he had seized the chance offered by Juve's interchange of glances with the king, and with an acrobat's agility had slipped inside this chair! No sooner was the chair abandoned in the gallery than de Naarboveck-Fantômas had slipped out and away.
"I tell you what," Walter said to Nan privately, while they were eating. "That cross on the old bandit's map is between this gulch and that other where Tom lost the outlaw." "Yes. So they say, Walter," Nan replied. "Do you know, Nan, I've an idea there is a hole right through this hill?" said the boy. "A hole? You mean that the cavern goes clear through?"
The black-skinned bandit's face turned a dirty white; his jaw dropped; he would have shrieked if Gale had not hit him. The blow swept him backward against his men. Then Gale's heavy body, swiftly following with the momentum of that rush, struck the little group of rebels. They went down with table and chairs in a sliding crash. Gale carried by his plunge, went with them.
When Felix at last returned to his chamber he could not but reflect, as the sun rose and the beams entered, that every omen had been against him; the adder under foot, the bandit's bolt, the Bushman's poisoned point. He slept till noon, and, upon going out, unrefreshed and still weary, he found that they had already buried the horse, and ordered a mound to be raised above his grave.
Another cigarette went into the bandit's mouth. "Should I waste time talking of what ain't?" he drily said. Hardy was still skeptical. "You know there's oil on this ranch?" "I 'ave know so for a long time." "On the level?" said Pell, eagerly. "'Way down below," laughed Lopez, delighted at his ability to pun in English, and making a motion with one hand toward the nether regions. "You mean it?"
I did not like the look of him at all; but nevertheless I decided to undertake the case. "I suppose," I answered, at length, "it is no affair of mine who the patient is or where he lives. But how do you propose to manage the business? Am I to be led to the house blindfolded, like the visitor to the bandit's cave?" The man grinned slightly and looked very decidedly relieved.
But these two valiant buccaneers were not to remain in undisturbed possession of the Bandit's Home with its bewildering fittings and enchanting possibilities not for long.
In fact, there was every appearance that the tent had been for a long time used as a kind of store-room, the receptacle of a bandit's omnium-gatherum, and had been hastily prepared for unexpected inmates. But these particulars, which he might have noted at a glance, Nathan did not pause to survey.
Well, I'm not out to kill anybody if I can help it, and my horse has had a nice rest. I'll run for it." He did. The rifle cracked again and the bandit's wide-brimmed hat rose from his head and sailed away into the sage. He looked back at it a trifle dubiously, but he knew better than to stop to recover that hat, in the face of such close snap-shooting.
'Tis you, then, who betrayed us? "'M. Louet! cried Zephyrine, 'if you are a man, help me! "I saw the blade of a poniard glitter. I had no weapon, but I seized my bass by the handle, and, raising it in the air, let it fall with such violence on the captain's skull, that the back of the instrument was smashed in and the bandit's head disappeared in the interior of the bass.
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