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at Saave curt directions to his

partner "Go through hinized that he was in the hands of the law, and a different

sort of law from that which he had known on Misery He ht and unblinkingly into the eyes of

the club-wielder

"Don't ye hit ," he said, quietly "I warns ye"

The officer laughed as he ran his left hand over Sa weapon

"I guess that's about all We'll let you explain the rest of it to the

judge It's a trick on the Island for yours"

The Island hter of

the crowd, and the roughness hich the two bluecoats swung hie every defiant nerve

Still, he gazed directly into the faces of his captors, and inquired

with a cruelly forced calm: "Does ye 'low ter take et along!" And the officers started

hi and stu

forward Then, the curb of control slipped The prisoner wheeled, his

face distorted with passion, and lashed out with his fist to the face

of the biggest patrolman It was a foolish and hopeless attack, as the

boy realized, but in his code it was necessary One ht with such

concentrated fury and swiftness, after his rude hillin terrific bloith hands and head, that the

crowd breathed deep with the delicious exciteretted its brevity