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Updated: June 23, 2025
"It would never do to let people see us two with a dead man between us." "Then you must go up town and get a hack." Moriarity turned back to the shore, and climbing the bank, hurried in the direction of the city. Left alone with his victim, the desperado bent over him, placing his hand on Chip's heart.
This left Cummings and the Doctor alone. Glancing out the window they saw Moriarity gallop off, and a short distance behind Scip on his horse, following. "Where did you pick up that darkey, Doctor?" asked Cummings. "In St. Louis, about five years ago. He is a good one, faithful and brave, and will never squeal. He is just the man to help us on this new deal."
Haight will go to Chicago and know what to do, while I well- -I am going south for my health." Stopping abruptly he drew his revolver, and stepping up to Moriarity, placed the cold muzzle to his temple.
He opened his mouth to cry for aid, but a strong hand was laid on his wind-pipe and the cry died before it was born. The cold barrel of the revolver against his ear, and the detective's "shut up or I'll shoot," was too strong an argument to combat, and Moriarity submitted to being pushed hurriedly from the room into the open air and dark night.
Leaning forward, with the skill of an expert pickpocket, Scip drew the revolver from the holster on Cummings' saddle, and dropped it in the dry grass which bordered the trail. Watching his opportunity, he pushed his horse against Moriarity, and in the slight confusion caused by the collision, he managed to obtain Dan's revolver in the same way.
Moriarity never tried to evade one. She was just happy-go-lucky and careless. William approached the house with some misgivings. A number of the younger Moriaritys were playing around the door, and just as William approached them a drunken man staggered up, singing loudly. He fell over one of the children, and the youngster set up a howl that brought the mother to the open door.
Sam, who was on the lookout for Moriarity, was notified at once, and the three detectives, laying the matter before the chief of police, were furnished with seven mounted men armed to the teeth, and all of them old Texas rangers. This formidable troop had left the city scarcely an hour after the robbers had started.
Heavy breathing and deep snores from the sleeping-rooms indicated that slumber had fallen on all the inmates. Swanson, who had been repeatedly urged to drink by Cummings and Moriarity and had accepted every invitation, was stretched on his back a drunken mass of stupidity.
To which Cummings replied: "It is I, be not afraid," at the same time poking Moriarity in the ribs, and chuckling: "I haven't forgotten my Bible yet, eh, Dan?" A blanket was lifted to one side, and disclosed to view the entrance to a natural cave, into the wall of which was stuck a naming, pitch-pine knot.
His eyes, cold as steel and sharp as an arrow, were fastened upon Dan's very heart, and speaking with terrible earnestness, he said: "Dan Moriarity, if ever you break faith with me, I'll kill you like a cur, so help me God!"
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