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"Well wots he?" demanded Dopey Charlie "He's a thief--he said he was--look in his pockets--they're craun-ot nothin' on me"

The darkness hid the scarlet flush which ht it ht He waited in duuilt Earlier in the evening he had flaunted the evidence of his crireat shame that his new found friend should believe hie did not ask for any substantiation of Charlie's charges, he men that they would have to leave the boy alone and in the ht had lessened the unknown danger which lurked below-stairs, betake theether in this room you two must sit over near the ," he concluded "You've tried to kill the boy once to-night; but you're not going to try it again--I'otta crust, bo," observed Dopey Charlie, belligerently "I guess me an' The General'll sit where we damn please, an' youse can take it frooin' to have ours out of The Kid's haul If you tink you're goin' to cop the whole cheese you got another tink coe, "on the well known fact that I never carry a gun; but you fail to perceive, owing to the Stygian glooun hand and that the business end of it is carefully ai in your direction"

"Cheese it," The General advised his companion; and the two removed themselves to the opposite side of the apartly, to one another

The girl, the boy, and Bridge waited as patiently as they could for the coht and planning against the future Bridge advised the girl to return at once to her father; but this she resolutely refused to do, ade to face her friends even though her father ht acco that his mother was dead and that he could not return hoe could not find it in his heart to refuse him, for the man realized that the boyish waif possessed a subtile attraction, as forceful as it was inexplicable Not since he had followed the open road in coht care to 'Pal' before The Kid crossed his path on the dark and storm swept pike south of Oakdale