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Updated: June 10, 2025
Of cou'se you carried the sack and York Neil held the guns." The man cursed quietly, and relapsed into silence. "Always buy your clothes in pairs?" The sheriff's voice showed only a pleasant interest, but the outlaw's frightened eyes were puzzled at this sudden turn. "Wearing a bandanna same color and pattern as you did the night of our jamboree on the Limited, I see.
Her eyes did not leave the outlaw's broad back as he ran on a dozen paces ahead of the dogs. She was ready for him if he tried to escape, and she would surely fire. Running close to her side Philip observed the tight grip of her hands on the weapon, and saw one little thumb pinched up against the safety ready for instant action.
The latter, eying the murderer with an expression that might have been mistaken for friendly, had not Levake known there could be no friendship among decent men for him, broke the silence: "Levake, I have a warrant for you." The words seemed to shake the spell from the outlaw's nerves. He answered with his usual coolness: "You've waited a good while to serve it."
He rose slowly, with a long, shuddering breath and turned his eyes to where the outlaw's trail swung from the lake into the North. Even in that moment, as the blood in his veins seemed congealing with the icy chill of death, the irony of the situation was not lost upon Philip. "It's the law versus God, Billy," he chattered, as if DeBar stood before him.
The power of the stroke might have felled an ox, and would have at once overthrown the new- comer, but that he was a man of unusual stature; and this being unperceived in the outlaw's haste, the blow lighted on his left shoulder instead of on his head.
Therefore, for an instant, Bute was in advance with his back toward the detective. Covering the fellow with his revolver, Brandt shouted: "Bute, throw up your hands; surrender, or you are a dead man!" Instantly the truth flashed through the outlaw's mind. Instead of complying, he threw himself forward over the pony's neck and urged the animal forward.
"What's that?" exclaimed the farmer in alarm. "I believe that scoundrel has got loose," answered Luke. He quickened his pace and entered the house just in time to become a witness of the outlaw's brutality. It was no time to hesitate or parley. He sprang upon the robber, dashed him to the ground, and put his foot upon his breast. "What deviltry are you up to, you miserable man?" he demanded.
This was a delicate evasion of any allusion to the cruel conduct of his mother towards the outlaw's family. "When," she went on, "he had succeeded in restraining the meditated violence of the tories, he approached me for they had already dragged me out, and indeed it was my screaming that brought him with such haste to the spot.
In a short time the anchor was brought aboard and lashed fast. The rowboat was slung into place and made secure, and nothing remained but the disposing of Wyckoff to occupy the boys at the island. "How about it, Wyckoff?" called Harry from the deck of the Fortuna; "do you want some grub, or can you rustle for yourself?" A torrent of abuse was the outlaw's reply.
But they never came to the deadly level to which Slade sought to throw them; for Shorty's guns were crashing at Slade's first movement, and the bullets from the outlaw's weapons thudded into the board floor, harmlessly, and Slade lurched forward almost to Shorty's side his guns loosening in his hands and falling, one after the other, to the floor.
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