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Dizzily Joan arose, and with Cleve half supporting her she backed

off the road to a seat on the bank She saw the bandits now at

business-like action Blicky and S the horses out

of their harness: Beady Jones, like a ghoul, searched the dead ht were e with his, expectant grin;

and Gulden, with the agility of the gorilla he resee Suddenly from under the

driver's seat he hauled a buckskin sack It was s over that bandit Budd hugged

the sack and yelled like an Indian The other men whooped and ran

toward him Gulden hauled out another sack Hands to the nuly When he threw the sack there was a leeful

Blicky secured the prize and he held it aloft in triumph Assuredly

he would have waved it had it not been so heavy Gulden drew out

several sly placed on the seat in

front of hiiant,

with his are fra, and his face turned red He halted in his tugging to

glare at his bandit coreat cavernous eyes

expressed any feeling it was analogous to the reluctance ang He would rather

have been alone Then with deep-e buckskin sack, tied and placarded and marked

"ONE HUNDRED POUNDS!" he boomed