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* : a hal » “ * « : : a’ rk. i* u n.% F as | v ’ \ ivi JACK AND HIS SEVEN FOES, 1lo : Slideaway wanted revenge, and to get | Therefore he desired the Bowie Boys to ie it cheap. If the Bowie Boys didallthe | do all the kilhne. ah killing, the blood of the slain would be It would not be enough for them to ae - on their heads, and that was just what | take Jack’s life. They must take the be this promising young man wished them | lives of Jack’s friends also. By m to do. After the deed was done, Slideaway oe There was not much law in Maple | Bunks, father and son, intended to be Mountain, but Judge Lynch sat on the | as indignant as anybody. bench in extreme cases. Then the trial, But now there was a little hitch in sentence, and execution was generally | the business. over in half-an-hour. Young Slideaway had been requested “ And if they suspected me,” thought | to join in, and he dared not refuse. young Shideaway, “they would make a “T’ve mixed myself up with that lot,” very short job of it indeed.” he thought, as he entered his house, The fact was that Jack had become a | “and I must go on. But blarm me if bit of a favourite with the little com- | I don’t wish now that I’d taken this munity in Maple Mountain, although | hole in my head more kindly, and not Shdeaway, junior, had declared other- | gone on with the business.” wise. But regrets now were useless ; he had They were a rough people, but they | gone too far to retreat, and must take had some heart in them, and lhked the his chance of success, or pay the penalty brave, handsome young fellow who | of failure. | sojourned in their midst. And the penalty of his villainy, what He did not mix much with them, but | would that be? when he did, he was quietly genial and As Slideaway asked himself this kind. He was an especial favourite | question, he shuddered violently, and with the women—old and young. experienced a dread sinking at his And this Shdeaway Bunks knew. | heart. CDAUNDATDUDP?A CMM AA2AUM 2M tM QDVDVLADVTLT?ANDAAD2A°D2ANDO2 MEM —_ + CHAPTER XLY. THE SHADOWS GATHER, AND THE PLOT THICKENS—THE FATAL MOMENT AT HAND. THERE was elation among the Bowie | Jibber,”’ said the Swaggerer, “and bind Boys. myself to give an extra month’s pay.” Their master, Makepeace Jibber, had “Wal,” drawled Jibber, ‘ pour it addressed them on the prospect of their | out.” coming expedition, and their expecta- “This boy—this Jack Boldheart, tions were very rosy. hissed the Swaggerer, “T want to finish “The pile of dollars we were robbed | him myself. I sha’n’t rest easy unless of,” he said, “we shall get back, and | I take his life.” we shall likewise stop that enterprising | “Then take it,” said Jibber, laconi- young party from performing a similar | cally. 7 trick.” “T don’t think I can do it alone,” Early in the evening nhey were all ready to move towards M aple Mountain, and he began to dispatch them by twos and threes. The appointed place for the final muster was the stone at the foot of the mountain, where he met young Shde- away earlier in the day. said the Swagegerer, ‘“‘he’s such a con- founded eel. When you get him down, you and your men could hold him for a minute while I look in his eyes and say something ! ”’ Jibber laughed contemptuously. “T understand now,” he said, “ how that young fellow got his hold over In a little time they were all on the |} you.” road. It was growing dusk, and Jibber “Do you?’ and the pwaggerer brought up the rear. “Yes; there’s no real bottom—no rr eee “1 want to make a proposal to you, | root to you. I can be funky at times, ECONNICLOOKS COM