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Updated: June 10, 2025
His first thought as he saw the great wild face in the door of his tunnel was that Bram had been looking at him for some time while he was asleep; and that if the desire to kill had been in the outlaw's breast he might have achieved his purpose with very little trouble.
He would inherit his share of their joint business and would reinstate himself as a good citizen with the Mounted and with McRae's friends. Surlily the desperado yielded. "All right, if you're so set on it." "Drop the whip." The fingers of West opened and the handle fell to the floor. Deftly the other removed a revolver from its place under the outlaw's left armpit. West glared at him.
She indicated Maid's exquisitely thin shinbone. I measured the Outlaw's. It was equally thin, although, I insinuated, possibly more durable. This stabbed Charmian's pride.
This she handed to Harding, who threw it at the masked outlaw's feet with the remark: "Your spy informed you correctly; there is the money; just thirty-two thousand dollars." "Thank you," said the outlaw, quietly counting the money before he spoke again. "Yes, it is all here. Now, miss, had Harding ransomed you, it was your intention to have repaid him, you said."
The other, or the dramatic motive, lies in bringing in the discussion on this long outlawry just at this particular Thing of 1031; for it was obviously the teller's object to suggest to the reader the hope of the great outlaw's legal restoration to the cherished society of man just before the falling of the crushing blow, in order to give an enhanced tragic interest to his end, and he undoubtedly succeeds in doing this.
"One easily believes what he wishes to believe," remarked Arechiza. "Hear me, Senor Don Estevan! There are two things on which I pride myself. One is, that I have a conscience easily alarmed; the other, that I am gifted with a perspicuity not easily deluded." The Spaniard made no further objections. He was satisfied, not with the outlaw's conscience, but his perspicuity.
Two miles beyond the big drift they came upon the outlaw's huge sledge, from which Bram and his wolves had made a wide circle in order to stalk him from behind. The fact puzzled him. Evidently Bram had expected his unknown enemy to pursue him, and had employed his strategy accordingly. Why, then, had he not attacked him the night of the caribou kill?
He caught a leaping gleam in the outlaw's eye. "Aw, Bill, thet's too fur a shot," said Jasper, as Black rested an elbow on his knee and sighted over the long, heavy Colt. The distance to the peon was about fifty paces, too far for even the most expert shot to hit a moving object so small as a bucket. Duane, marvelously keen in the alignment of sights, was positive that Black held too high.
Kid Wolf could draw and throw his bowie as swiftly as he could pull his firearms. It flashed through the air a streak of dazzling light! The fang of the wolf was striking! Ping! The steel tore its way through the outlaw's right wrist. The Texan's throw had been as true as a rifle bead. Blacksnake yelled and tried to reach for his Colt with his left hand. Then The Kid leaped in.
Another trick the Outlaw developed during that drive was suddenly to turn at right angles in the traces and endeavour to butt its team-mate over the grade. Reluctantly and nobly did Charmian give in and consent to the use of Maid. The Outlaw's shoes were pulled off, and she was turned out on range. Finally, the four horses were hooked to the rig a light Studebaker trap.
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