Tip Top Weekly No. 61: Frank Merriwell in the Mines — page 13: what you’re looking at

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FRANK MERBIWELL IN THE MINES. 11 majesty of the law is administered and{ ‘‘Your friends—of course they carry upheld in this town! Say, young man, if, guns?” } you'll buy drinks for the crowd we'll leti ‘‘No.” you off without special permits. ”’ i Smith lifted his eyebrows a trifle, the ‘No, sir,’ said Frank, firmly, ‘‘I shall’ look of gravity on his face deepening, if not buy drinks for the crowd. I never: possibie. drink myself, and I refuse to be bullied: ‘‘Do you mean to say you are traveling into purchasing drinks for anybody else. through this part of the country without If I see fit to stand treat while Iam in’ weapons of any sort save those nature Silver Bluff P']] do so; but I don’t pro-} gave you?” pose to be forced to do anything of the’ .‘‘Yes, sir”? sort.”” | “That is very careless. There is an old The judge sighed and looked sad and: saying, which I presume you have heard, crestfallen. ‘that ainan out here may never need a ‘And I am so dry—so dry!" he huskily: gun but once in his Hfe, but when he murmured. ‘‘These are the first tender-| does need it he will need it bad. You feet we have failed to make set up the;came near needing one bad when that bug-juice since I located in Silver Bluff. ruffian pulled on you.”? This is the beginning of the end! Before: “Oh, Idon't know. The chances are Jong this place will be run by tenderfeet, that if I had owned a gun and tried to and every saloon will sell soda water. 1: draw it he would have shot ai ein of must be alone with mv sorrow.” | jholes while I was getting it out.’ - And he slowly followed Mole into the, “That is true,’? nodded Smith. Golden Eagle. - i‘‘Realiv, in that case, as it turned out, you seemed to be better off without a | gun. I don’t know, possibly you are bet- ‘| ter off any way. ling to keep away from the Goiden Eagle The man from Mexico came down from | ! ‘and look out for Ben Boze. The others, the steps of the saloon and spoke to with the exception of a hunchback who Frank. ‘is known as Crooked Pete, are not par- ‘TI congratulate you on your nerve,” ‘ticularly dangerous. Crooked Pete is a he said. ‘You will find. that you need snake, even more dangerous than Boze.” nerve toget along in this country, and) Merriwell thanked the man, and then you will have further trouble if vou re- the boys went to the hotel, where they inain in Silver Bluff. Do you intend to registered and paid for their accommoda- eS CS pee CHAPTER III. THE UNSEEN SINGER. But remein ber mv Warne stop here ?”’ “Until to-morrow.’’ ‘*Then you had better put up at the | hotel over there and keep away from the. 2 bad place. How :Boze’s revolver, while Bruce lost no time ‘in getting into his room and stretching Golden Eagle, which is a are yotu armed ?”? Frank smiled. tions in advance, according to the rules ‘of the house. Toots set to work repairing his bicycle, the spokes of one wheel being bent. Frank employed a man to return Ben ‘*At present I am armed with this,” he! his massive form on the hard bed, where answered, holding up the revolver he had/| he was soon sleeping peacefully and snor- captured from the bullwhacker. ‘‘And you have no other weapon 3 on ‘Nothing but my fists.’’ ing loudly. Shortly. after entering the hotel, Frank was surprised to see Sing Lee riihing COMIC OOO SS (SO)