Part 19 (1/2)
”Where are they going?” he asked
”That's Captain Gilroy's business,” was the answer
”Oh, so you call Gilroy captain now?”
”We do”
”How many men is he captain of?”
”About thirty, if you're anxious to know”
”Thirty! There are not that number of desperadoes within three hundred ht, if you know better than I do”
”Has the captain gone off for the rest of my party?”
”Perhaps he has”
”It won't do hiood to make them prisoners”
”I reckon he knows his own business best, Captain Moore”
”And ill you get out of this affair, Potts?”
”Me? I'll get my share e make another haul”
”Do you expect to make another haul soon?”
”As I said afore, better ask the captain We're organized into a regular company now, and all the privates like me have to do is to obey orders
You kno it is in the regular army”
”A co we haven't had out here in years”
Potts would talk no more after this, but sat down on a rock to s captain had had his hands bound tightly behind him, and, try his best, he found himself unable to either break or slip his bonds
He was anxious concerning hi his brother and his cousin
”If they kick up a fuss, more than likely Gilroy and the others will shoot theht ould have a splendid ti into all sorts of difficulties”
As i but stalk around the cave
The place was five yards wide by over a hundred feet long To the rear was a rude fireplace, the sh so, and he kicked a fresh log on the blaze, which soon gave hiain