Part 42 (1/2)

This time the shots were directed at the riders, and that set up a wild chorus of yells and plunged away

It was clear enough to Jack that the bandit king had scheallery so that the e

A rattling volley came back from the bandits' rifles

Crack! Crack!

Crack! Crack!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The firing continued without cessation for several minutes, but when the Terror made a rush for the outlaws, it ceased

Every one of thees, and were instantly sed up by the gloom

Jack cut out the current and put on the brakes

”They're gone That settles it We can't follow thees!” he exclaio out!”

He procured several of the hand grenades, to which binding screere attached, planted them in niches in the walls, joined them in series by copper wires, and from the two end ones ran two lead wires to the dynaulch

There he turned a current of electricity into the wires, the bombs were burst, and the cave was blown up

It was completely wrecked

The roof fell in, the walls caved in, the passages were choked up with debris, and it was rendered utterly useless as a place of resort again for the outlaws

Jack sent the stage dashi+ng through the gulch

It eh which ran a strea the hills

Instead of finding the bandits there though, Jack was chagrined to see that the passages they followed had led them up into the hills

He saw so away on their horses for the other side of the range

It was not possible to follow theled shrubbery and tue

”The only course to pursue,” Jack coo around the base of the hills and try to reach the course, my lad,” said Tim

”That's so; but there is no alternative”

”Vhere yer tink dey go now, Dimperlake?” asked Fritz

”Out of the State, as fast as possible,” the sheriff answered