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"You you " stammered the former teacher, and for the moment knew not what to say. "Don't you call us hoss-thieves!" burst out Sol Blugg, savagely. "I can and I will," replied Dave, firmly. "Your crowd tried to take our horses, and the fellow called Staver got shot doing it. I guess that is why he isn't with you now." "Bah! I won't talk with you," growled Sol Blugg. He knew not what else to say.
The news concerning the expedition reached the ears of Sol Blugg and his cronies, and this, coupled with the sudden departure of Abe Blower, set that crowd to wondering what was up. "Maybe it's another gold strike," suggested Larry Jaley. "It might be," said the fellow called Staver. "If I thought it was a gold strike I'd follow 'em," announced Sol Blugg.
"Link Merwell!" gasped Phil. "And see, that Sol Blugg is with him!" "And here comes Job Haskers and the man called Larry Jaley!" said Dave, in reply. "Wonder where that other fellow, Staver, is?" murmured Roger. "Maybe he was too badly hurt to come with them and had to go back," returned Dave. "Say, I don't see much use of coming along this trail," called out Link Merwell, to those with him.
"What is it?" questioned Roger, rousing up, followed by Phil. "Those men!" murmured Dave. "Look, fellows!" The others came to his side and looked out of the window. Just emerging from the alleyway were three men on horseback, all equipped for camping out. The three men were Blugg, Jaley, and Staver. "Well, I declare! What are those fellows doing here?" cried the senator's son.
The men were sure that the Dillon party and the Blower party were on the trail of a new find of gold and wanted to get in "on the ground floor," as they expressed it. "They can't do nuthin' to me about tryin' to git the hosses," said Staver. "It's only Dillon's word against mine an' you all know I got shot in the hand by accident," and he winked suggestively.
"We located the house and are going over there right after we eat," answered the senator's son. "And by the way, Mr. Dillon," he continued. "Do you know any men named Blugg, Jaley, and Staver?" "Do I!" cried Tom Dillon. "Sure I do, an' so do lots of other folks in these diggin's. What do you know about 'em?" "We met them on the train." "Don't ye have nothin' to do with that crowd, lads.
"It is," answered the former teacher. "Is it another gold strike?" burst out Sol Blugg, eagerly. "Not exactly a strike," answered Merwell. "All of us came out to relocate the lost Landslide Mine." "What! That mine!" yelled Staver, and the tone of his voice showed his deep disgust. "Nuthin' to it nuthin' at all. If you're arfter thet mine ye might as well go right back home.
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