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"They are masked men, outlaws, belonging, I feel sure, to the road-agent band I heard of when at W ." "They go masked in camp?" "They do." "How many?" "There are, I think, nearly a dozen of them." "Tell me of them, and where they are." "They are camped in the blue-cliff cañon, near our old home, and are working the mine we marked as number two on our map." "They are here for gold, then?"
Rising to his feet the Cavalier suddenly felt the cold muzzle of a revolver pressed against his head, and heard the words: "You are my prisoner; resist and I will kill you; up with your arms!" He tried to laugh it off as a joke, but she was in deadly earnest, and he soon found it out. Leaning over she took the weapons of the road-agent from his belt, and told him to move on ahead.
They were plainly revealed in the ghostly moonlight, and their features easily studied. "Alexander Filmore!" the young road-agent said, a terrible depth of meaning in his voice, that the cowering wretch could but understand. "Alexander Filmore, you have at last come out and shown your true colors. What a treacherous, double-dyed villain you are!
"I most certainly have, and if you'll look after him I'll go and fetch his horse, for I've got a hook fastened to his rein and he can't go far." "Billy!" cried the road-agent. "Yes, I am Buffalo Billy, and I assumed this disguise to catch you and I've done it. "Do you love me now, pard?"
"Do you like Santa Claus, Reginald?" interrupted Flanders. "I like him better'n I do Dickens," confessed Reginald with considerable positiveness. "Say, what's your name?" "My name is Dick." "Gee! Deadwood Dick, the road-agent? The feller Melissa is always telling us about? Hey, kids, here's " "Sh!" hissed Flanders, clapping his hand over Master Reginald's mouth. "Never mind that!"
She was riding away with a freebooter, a road-agent, to be held for ransom. The fact was scarcely credible. She could not shake the dread of nameless peril. She tried not to recall Roberts's words, yet they haunted her. If she had not been so handsome, he had said! Joan knew she possessed good looks, but they had never caused her any particular concern.
I have the money, and will pay it over when the young lady is given into my charge, but not before. Where is she?" The road-agent seemed impressed by the stern words of Doctor Dick, and responded: "I will go and fetch her, while you turn your coach around." This Harding at once did, and coming to a halt again, Doctor Dick got down from the box, and the bag of gold was handed to him by Harding.
"Good mornin', Collie," replied Wade. "I'm sorry to scare you, but I'm particular anxious to see you. An' considerin' how you avoid me these days, I had to waylay you in regular road-agent style." Wade gazed up searchingly at her. It had been some time since he had been given the privilege and pleasure of seeing her close at hand. He needed only one look at her to confirm his fears.
"We've talked that over, Frank," said he, "and we've come to the conclusion that you must keep that and go home, just as you planned to do. You're the only man of us who has managed to keep what he has made. Johnny falls overboard and leaves his in the bottom of the Sacramento; Yank gets himself busted in a road-agent row; I I well, I blow soap bubbles!
The old man never thort what a comfort them sermons wus a-goin' to be to a road-agent, though. That time we stopped Slim Mike's stage, an' he didn't hev no more manners than to draw on me, them sermons wus a perfec' blessin' to me the thought uv 'em cleared my head ez quick ez a cocktail. An' "
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