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As Flannagan shot into their midst the men at the table leaped to their feet and bolted for the doorway; but the detective was up and after the out of the rooenerously slammed the door in the faces of his fellows, and there they pulled and hauled at each other until Flannagan was anize no one; but to be on the safe side he hit out promiscuously until he had driven them all from the door, then he stood with his back toward it--the inmates of the roo to shoot at the first sound of ain, and stepping just outside ordered the prisoners to file out one at a tian scrutinized his face, and it was not until they had all eht that he discovered that once again his quarry had eluded hian was peeved

The sun smote down upon a dusty road A heat-haze lay upon the arid land that stretched away upon either hand toward gray-brown hills A little adobe hut, backed by a few squalid outbuildings, stood out, a screaround that was garish with light

Twothe road Their coats were off, the brims of their tattered hats were pulled down over eyes closed toup at the distant hut, broke into verse: Yet then the sun was shining down, a-blazing on the little town, Ain the sun But somehow, as I waited there, there ca south," he said "The winter has begun"

His companion looked up at him who quoted

"There ain't no track," he said, "an' that 'dobe shack don't look ot our nuht We are the birds a-flyin' south, and Flannagan was the shiver in the air Flannagan is a reg'lar frost Gee! but I betcha dat guy's sore"

"Why is it, Billy," asked Bridge, after a lish after the ain after that of the back alley? Sometimes you say 'that' and 'dat' in the same sentence Your conversational clashes are nuinal style"