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52 BOB YOUNGER’S FATE. “See here, boys, stop a minute. This confounded eirth has come loose, and I’ll have to dismount to fix it.”’ He slid to the ground nimbly as a cat, and busied himself with the loosened girth. At last he seemed to have put the refractory piece of leather in due submission. ‘‘Now, friend J Bned, mayn’t I heave out that hoss- ~laugh?’’ ’ ‘‘T suppose it’s safe enough here, but tone it down; you know not who may be listening.”’ For answer the fellow burst out into such a hearty ouffaw as made the echoes ring. _ The effect was certainly different from what one of the pseudo farmers imagined was in store for them, for scarcely had the sound died away when from four separate points in the surrounding bushes as many men rushed forth and grappled: with our travelers. One of them selected Scott, and rolled over and over in the dust with him, neither seeming to gain any advantage, while a second rushed at Jabez, and with a quick motion pulled him off his steed. “Save yourself!’ cried he to Theo, sinking to the earth, with a groan as though badly hurt. The two remaining assailants rushed furiously at _ the cashier, but were not destined to be so success- ful as their partners had proven. Drawing his revolver, the young man_ fired directly in the face of one of the foe, or rather made an attempt to do so, but the weapon did not go off. Pulling the trigger again with the same result, he nae amnediatel+ began to use the revolver as a club, and with such good effect that one of the attacking m Eomicbooks (¢(0)