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It was after ht when four ht nor any sign of life within as they crept silently through the doorless doorway Coluht around the interior revealing four forms stretched upon the floor, deep in slumber Into the blacker shadows of the far end of the rooht for the first flash had shown hi out their quarry the intruders e awoke to find twoto rainand full of the vigor of a clean life, he pitted against their greater numbers and cowardly attack a defense which was infinitely more strenuous than they had expected

Columbus Blackie leaped for The Oskaloosa Kid, while The Sky Pilot seized upon Abigail Prim No one paid any attention to Giova, nor, with the noise and confusion, did the intruders note the sudden clanking of a chain from out the black depths of the roo

Soup Face entangling hi the latter to the floor while Dirty Eddie kicked viciously at the prostrate ail Prih the girl fought valiantly to free herself her lesser muscles were unable to cope successfully with those of the man Coluain and again the youth struck hi down the sli viciously at body and head until, at last, the boy, half stunned though still struggling, was dragged frorowls reverberated through the deserted hters Abigail Prim screamed "The bear!" she cried "The bear is loose!"

Dirty Eddie was the first to feel the weight of Beppo's wrath His foot drawn back to iirl's screa reared up before hi presence of soe eyes and felt the hot breath frole terrific blohich caught the man upon the side of the head to spin hiainst the wall, with a fractured skull Dirty Eddie was out Soup Face, giving voice to a scream more bestial than human, rose to his feet and fled in the opposite direction