The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 189: what you’re looking at

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THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. 187 get revenge for past wrongs, and so cheerfully set about the task of fortifying their position. It was one sunny day in May that the men who had been appointed to watch for the coming of the robbers, came riding swiftly in with the announce- ment that they were in sight. In ten minutes every man was at his post, and all was in readiness. The affair was so Sea that not a man could be seen by the Bloodsuckers, as totally unsuspic- ious, they approached the rendezvous. And when they entered the little valley they were completely shut in. | Then a rifle cracked. It was the signal for the on- slaught. Completely and terribly surprised, the villains showed little resistance. In twenty minutes not one of them stood to tell the tale)’ Every man among them was dead. They had fallen into just such an ambush as they — would have laid for others. The revenge of the hunters was completely and fearfully executed. Only one incident of the battle requires especial - mention, although the deeds of blood done by all the hunters showed bravery and determination. It was tacitly understood, in the first of the fight, that Hat- field was to be left to the tender mercies of Robin-~ son, who only wanted a fair chance to settle the score which had been standing long between them. They met, early in the conflict, and without an in- stant of hesitation on either side, peeay a teres) hand-to-hand fight. _ Hatfield had nearly recovered from the wound his antagonist had inflicted upon him previously, and he fought like a tiger. The two men strained and Eomicboo cS com