The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 161: what you’re looking at

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THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. - 169 the flames. You may learn that I have risked all and lost all for you!” Until that moment Ryan had firmly believed that when he met Robinson, one or the other of them must die. But now he found that his feeling toward - the Bloodsucker was not altogether vengeful. He was a man who would help friend or foe in time of danger, and, after all, it had not been directly proved that Robinson was a traitor. Still he by no means acknowledged that his former estimate of the man had been wholly incorrect. But there was little doubt that danger threatened them all alike. He would certainly help to avert that, at all events. © “Wal, Mister Robinson,’’ he began, ‘‘I don’t know for sartin that what ye say is true, nor I don’t know that it ain’t. But jest now we’re all in the nine- hole, an’ ef nothin’ happens, me an’ my pardner will help pull ye through. Ef ther’s anythin’ to be said arterwards, why we'll say it.” It grew rapidly lighter, until ina very few min- utes it was possible to see for some distance in every direction. The three men moved forward a few paces, and secreted themselves behind a clump of ~ bushes, situated upon the crest of a little knoll. The horses of the pursuing Bloodsuckers soon came in sight, and ina very few moments were in easy, range. “Take keerful aim,”’ said Ryan, ‘‘an’ when I give the word, blaze away.’’ The men were now not more than a hundred yards » away—seventy-five—iilty. The report of the three rifles was - aim dln eeae When the thin cloud of blue smoke lifted, three of the saddles.of the Bloodsuckers were empty, and the SS) (ele) Se ee | | comicboo