Part 70 (1/2)
”Wait!” howled Miller ”They sha'n't escape!”
He snatched out a revolver, pointed it straight at Frank's breast, and fired!
Just as the desperate ruffian was pulling the trigger, the man nearest hih Frank's hat, knocking it to the ground
Miller was furious as a maniac, but, at thisrider burst in upon the scene, plunged straight through the circle, halting at the side of the i upon its haunches
”Wal, what be you-uns doin'?” de voice ”What work is this, that I don't know erbout?”
The men were silent Wade Miller cowered before the chief of theto hide the revolver
Muriel's eyes, gleah the twin holes of the mask he wore, found Miller, and the clear voice cried:
”You-uns has been lettin' this critter lead ye inter soave him ter keep clear o' azed at the moonshi+ner chief in amazement, for Muriel looked no more than a boy as he sat there on his black horse, and his voice seemed the voice of a boy instead of that of a overned these desperate ruffians of the mountains with a hand of iron, and they feared hi two revernues,” explained Miller
Muriel looked at the boys
”Revernues?” he said, doubtfully ”How long sence ther gover'ment has been sendin' boys hyar ter spy on us?”
”They knohat happens ter ther men they send,” muttered Miller
”Wal, 'tain't like they'd be sendin' boys arter men failed”
”That's ther way they hope ter fool us”
”An' how do you know them-uns is revernues?”
”We jest s'picions it”
”An' you-uns war hangin' 'em on s'picion, 'thout lettin' me know?”
”We never knohar ter find ye, Muriel”
”That is nary excuse, fer ef you-uns had held them-uns a day I'd knowed it It looks like you-uns war in a monstr'us hurry”
”It war he-uns,” declared one of the black hoods, pointing to Miller
”He-uns war in ther hurry”
”We don't gener'ly waste much time in dinkerin' 'roun' with anybody we-uns thinks is revernues,” said Miller
”Wal, we ain't got ther record o' killin' innercent boys, an' we don't begin now Take ther ropes off their necks”
Two rated his teeth As this was being done, Muriel asked: