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Every one of them All four were Seoking fot ‘hie Swins nging body of their victim. Whoever held the light was made in- visible by it. It was evidently a powerful bull’s eye lamp and the man who held it in front of hin was completely concealed in the shadow. . At the moment the light flashed, Trim was as far from the four men as the swinging of the rope would let him go. SBastantly he began to swing age them. The four leaped toward him with Sav- age Cries. “Trim doubled up his knees until they ~ were close to his chest. Then as he reached the bottom of his _ swing and the men were close at hand he shot both legs out with all his focre. One foot caught arm sasatant squarely mpes the chest, ‘The other struck a man in ie face. _- Both men reeled to one side. ¢: The one who was struck on the chest L 1 d with a loud gasp. been knocked out of 5 osed of only two. two were reaching out for ay ) ar m with their weapons. , ws oD yim’ dropped his fingers from the rope & 3 BEX was rae to “peguien and reached ; Se, cries “of, ~ staggered caper & Bis othe oid went out, accom} panied 3 th he ya ey of smashing glass. spot BS é same instant fon iT uy = twist ¢ with his fingers sand he was the feeling of the _grot Imost eevatves at some distance beyond, to re- spat as cou- where he had been standing, ‘Prim had seen the flash and reckoned — that it must be hity or sixty feet dis- did so felt the form of a man directly in front of him. He had no time to attack or defend himself. It was now less than half a second from the time when he had smashed the bull’s eye lamp. Another shot rang out on the night. | Trim saw the flash. It could not have been more than four or five feet from him. The man in front of him dropped to the ground without a groan. Now that the rope was released from his shoulders Trim could work the mechanism in his sleeves so as to bring his revolvers down where he could clutch them. It was the work of but an instant to do this. When he had them in his hands he fired three shots in ape succession ailm- ing at the place Hash of his enemy’s s eepaleks where he» had seen the When the sounds of these shots died — away he heard a hurried trampling of feet = reltedting: 7 Trim’s foes were in fight. He did not believe himself well out of danger. Counting the man who- held the lan-— tern, there had been five assailants surely. . Perhaps more were lurking near. ~ sight of him to shoot. Trim gave a jump to one side. — This brought him as’ he could tell by nd beneath his feet, to the edge of the road. A step or two and he stumbled against a large tree. aye - As he did so there was the crack This was followed by ; a vicious little the ball plowed into the road near tant. He promptly fired in that direction He still heard the sound of retreati * fostahera but the Aiter veer tis nae ‘ LT oment, he Lah toc y were growing fainter. ve | 7 ~~ & . e a . If so, they would only be “Sate ts 5 a | ie “4 ia al « j ; ~ h * ~ a d ih e - \ i . - a . - ~ 1 oo _— - — t : sd ~~ ‘ ‘ j 7 |. a j s . >; — i I} x” °° & | y's 7 md ‘. fd fs ed »* ~~ ’ ¥ ‘ : PF |