Part 36 (1/2)
”What do you want ofto do with such as you--a thieving, lon booe ended with a yell, for pawnee Brown had caught him by the ear and almost jerked him off his feet
”Let up! Let up! Oh!”
”Now keep quiet Vorlange,” said the scout sternly ”You can thank your stars that I didn't put a bullet through you for letting your tongue run so loosely”
”Thet's so, b'gosh,” was Rasco's corass”
”I know it” pawnee Brown looked at dick ”Has he been threatening you, lad?”
”Yes; threatened me and my father, too”
”Have no fear of hie, you have about reached the end of your rope”
”What do you mean?” and the spy's lips quivered as he spoke
”I mean that I am here to expose you” pawnee Brown turned to the others who had coe, alias Captain Mull, once of Creede, Colorado”
”Captain Mull!” exclaimed several ”Do you s, pawnee?”
”The saentlee, but his looks belied hientlemen, he is the man who once sported under the name of Captain Mull But that is not all”
”What else, pawnee?”
”Soo a man by the name of Andrew Rickas murdered in the Last Chance hotel at Creede At that time Creede was but a small place and Captain Mull ran the hotel Who murdered Rickas not discovered But he had occupied a rooent from New York named Mortiht Arbuckle had done the foul deed, and he had to run away to escape the fury of a mob The horror of this occurrence unbalanced the uilty But he is innocent”
”He is guilty!” shrieked Louis Vorlange ”I saw hie you were in Creede at that tiered back over the bad break he had made ”As I said, Mortimer Arbuckle is innocent There is the murderer, and here are the docue is a thief, that he assaulted Mortimer Arbuckle in the dark and left hiainst the best interests of the United States governe, and held aloft the packet he had taken from Yellow Elk