For a moment the whole gang, male and female, regarded him with surprise and suspicion; then Jew Mike sprang forward, seized him by the throat, shook him strongly, and in a rough, fierce voice, demanded: "Death and the devil, old scoundrel, how came you here? Who are you? are you a police spy one of Marshal Threekey's gang? Speak, d n you, before I break every bone in your accursed old carcass!"