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When Leroy's name was mentioned the burly man was quick to join in the conversation. "There ain't a word of truth in all this stuff you hear about Leroy," he said, and his manner was more emphatic than the occasion seemed to demand. "He's in the newspapers, and he ain't anywhere else on top of the ground. I know what I'm a-talking about.
She was laughing with a satisfaction that certainly wasn't motherly, so I slipped after her to the peristyle where I heard her say to the coachman, 'To Leroy's. I ran round quickly to Leroy's, and there, sure enough, was the poor mother. I got there in time to see her order and pay for a fifteen-hundred-franc dress; you understand that in those days people were made to pay when they bought.
I knew it was the dream-beasts; I didn't need Tweel's wail of 'No breet'! No breet'! But I couldn't keep away! I knew it was death beckoning, but it was worth it for one moment with the vision." "Which particular vision?" asked Harrison dryly. Jarvis flushed. "No matter," he said. "But beside me I heard Leroy's cry of 'Yvonne! Yvonne! and I knew he was trapped like myself.
I'll bet he's beginning to make things warm for Wolf Leroy's bunch of miscreants. We'll have the robbers of the Limited behind the bars within two weeks now, or I miss my guess." He had succeeded in diverting her attention better than he had dared to hope. Her big eyes fixed on his much as if he had raised for her some forgotten spectre. "That's another thing I must tell you.
Leroy," admitted Collins, with an answering smile. Leroy's square jaw set like a vise. "It won't happen again, Mr. Sheriff." "I'd hate to gamble on that heavy," returned Collins easily. Then he caught sight of the girl's white face, and rose to his feet with outstretched hand. "Sit down," snapped out Reilly. "Oh, that's all right I'm shaking hands with the lady.
They, knew it in an instant, and felt sure it must be the one spoken of by the German who had taken Leroy's gold and then betrayed him. "That's the place!" cried Tom, though of course Jack could not hear him. "Now to bomb it and set Harry free!" But they must return for more ammunition, and this they set about doing.
I'll be right here when you get back, York." The curly-headed young puncher took Leroy's hand in his, gulping down a boyish sob. "I ain't been square with you, cap. I reckon after this when you git well I'll not be such a coyote any more." The dying man's eyes were lit with a beautiful tenderness.
"Can you guess what they are going to do with us?" murmured Leroy. He caught the faint gleam of the Capuchin's eyes in the gloom. "I do not know, brother. Commend yourself to God, and so be prepared for whatever may befall." The answer was not very comforting to a man of Leroy's temperament.
Twenty thousand of it belonged to our company. I was expecting to pay off the men next Tuesday." "Hope we'll be able to run them down for you," returned Collins cheerfully. "I suppose you lay it to Wolf Leroy's gang?" "Of course. The work was too well done to leave any doubt of that." The major resumed his seat behind Miss Wainwright.
They had come prepared to gloat over Leroy's discomfiture, and he had mocked them with that insolent ease of his that set their teeth in helpless rage. But the deposed chief knew they had not struck their last blow.
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