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60. BLACK ARROW, THE AVENGER. are.one of the disorderly persons the note. speaks about? ] don't. know who among us would be safe, if that paper was worth any thing. If any man or set of men has got a grudge against me or my friends, let:'em come out and say it to our faces. They won't find us afraid to meet’em. Nobody but a coward would sneak about and stick up notices in the dark. ¢ The fact is,” said Roder, when he had walked aside. with his twe friends, .“ those vigilance, folks’ have, overshot the mark, _ If they hadn't put into the notice that stuff about all disorderly persons and establishments, they might have bothered me a little; but they have done us a deal more good than harm.” “ How so ?” asked Whetstone. “ More than one man will be for us now, who would have peen against us if they had put only. Paul Roder and. his friends in the notice... What man can say that he mayn’t be picked up as one of the disorderly people? We will hold the. best. hand if they play. the game that way, and I wouldn't, have one of those touched fora pile.” | | ; _.“ Perhaps you are right; but I don’t understand you. You talk very strangely, after what has happened.” _“ What do you mean ¢” “ Didn't you sisi any thing: about those notices. until this morning a “T believe moyen ontathdale ahout them last night.” “Db yey: I had piteciglinge that. I was just in time, it seems.” “J don't know what on earth you are talking: about,” “J was just.in time to. give you a ehance to fix it—to straighten it up, before the notices came, out.” “To fix what? To straighten up what?” “ The girl business. . Da. youiwant to make me think that you. haven't sent. her back ?” _-“ Sent her back! You are crazy, Whetstone.” “ My eyes may have lied to me; but I am sure that: I saw her, just.at dawn. this morning, sed was coming to the settle- ment, She.was on a sorrel horse, ridiog up to her father’s house.” “Ts this true?” . _“ True as gospel, ‘male a1y ae has uae eles Tsnaw * Conmicloooks.conm