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"Well said; but as you are able to pay a ransom for yourself, I shall hold you a prisoner until you pay me the money I demand." An oath burst involuntarily from the lips of Harding at this treachery on the part of the road-agent, while the young girl turned pale with momentary dread.
Now, good-by forever." On the following morning it was discovered that the road-agents and their daring leader, together with the no less heroic Calamity Jane, had left the valley gone; whither, no one knew. About a month later, one day when Calamity Jane was watering her horse at the stream, two miles above Deadwood, the road-agent chief rode out of the chaparral and joined her.
"I got another, so you just subside a lot," commanded Alfred, recocking his six-shooter. The stranger lay staring at him in astonishment. "Thought you was busted on catridges!" he cried. "You-all may as well know," snapped Alfred, "that's long as I'm an officer of this yere district, I'm a sheriff first and an Injin-fighter afterward." "What the hell!" wondered the road-agent, still in a daze.
"Well, what have you got to-day that's worthy our picking, my Boy Driver?" said the road-agent leader approaching the coach. "Only women, and I beg you not to be brute enough to scare 'em," said Billy. "Oh! they must pay toll; and they generally have good watches; but what is it, a woman's rights meeting, or a Seminary broke loose?
As the coach drew near the rendezvous appointed by the masked road-agent chief, at the Dead Line, Harding breathed hard with suppressed emotion. He had really fallen in love with the beautiful girl, whom he felt he was in a manner the protector of, and he was most anxious as to the result.
The road through the forest was narrow and uneven, and as the horses fell into a trot the men on horseback closed up together behind the carriage. "Do you think that road-agent will keep his word?" Langham asked. "Yes; he has nothing to win by telling the truth," Clay answered. "He can say he saw a party of foreigners, Americans, driving in the direction of Palacio's coffee plantation.
"Unless, a poor man, and a hunted one, he turned road-agent and was the man who held up the coach, killing Dave Dockery." "No, Harding, I can hardly believe that of him, and then, too, the coach was just held up, and this man, with his pard, perished in the cave-in of their mine." "You are sure?"
Ask Miss Seldon if she has not been treated with marked respect." "I can but answer yes, for I have been; but am I not to have my trunk and side-saddle?" "Oh, yes, certainly," and the road-agent gave a signal, which was promptly answered by two men appearing in the edge of the pines.
"Gentlemen!" he plead, "there is need o' yer dutchin' out yer dudads right liberal ef ye've enny purtic'lar anticypation an' desire ter git ter Deadwood ter-night. Dick, the Road-Agent, are law an' gospel heerabouts, I spec'late!" "Durned a cent'll I fork!" growled one old fellow, loud enough to be heard. "I ain't afeerd o' all the robber Dicks from here ter Jerusalum."
"The Red Rider!" protested Ranson; "I don't see anything exciting in rounding up one miserable horse thief." "Only they don't round him up," returned Curtis crossly. "That's why it's exciting. He's the best in his business. He's held up the stage six times now in a year. Whoever the fellow is, if he's one man or a gang of men, he's the nerviest road-agent since the days of Abe Case."
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