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"Get your six-shooter an' a rifle, an' come on over to the office I want to see you a minute"

Eddie did as he was bid, and when he entered the little rooarettes while Grayson stood before a chair in which sat a man with his arms tied behind his back Grayson turned to Eddie

"This party here is the slick un that robbed the bank, and got away on thet there Brazos pony thet eant here an' his oin' to take hiuard over hiet a little sleep first, though, an' I gotta get some supper Don't stand fer no funny business now, Eddie," Grayson ad the office when a thought occurred to hiettin' out of the little bedrooh this rooh I'll tell you what, we'll lock him up in there an' then you won't hev to worry none an' neither e You can jest spread out the'in the door, an' there won't nobody hev to relieve you all night"

"Sure," said Eddie, "leave it to me--I'll watch the slicker"

Satisfied that their prisoner was safe for the night the Villistas and Grayson departed, after seeing him safely locked in the back roouard's names-- Eddie and Shorter--Billy had studied the face of the young American cowpuncher, for the two naestion that they should be very familiar Yet he could connect them in no ith anyone he had known in the past and he was quite sure that he never before had set eyes upon thisto occupy him Billy let his mind dwell upon the identity of his jailer, until, asin the whole world seemed equally as i fate faded into nothingness by comparison with the momentous question as to where he had heard the na his brain over the inconsequentialstirred upon the floor close to his feet, and presently he jerked back a booted foot that a rat had conaw upon