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72 BLACK ARROW, THE AVENGER. “Glad to see you at last,” said Roder, with something of a sneer. “Better late than never, I suppose. That's the old saying at least.” “T hope I haven’t delayed you, or put you back in any of your plaus.” “ Not a bit of it. Time-enough yet, as the man n said when they wanted to hang him... We didn’t expect to start before daybreak, and one man more or Jess would make a - any difference, except in dividing the plunder.” “You may be sure that I will want my share of tha if _ “So we reckoned, and I hope. you. may get it.) ‘Sit down by the. fire, and make yourself comfortable... You -will need something warming after riding in the night-air, and’ here's plenty of the O-be-joyful.” Whetstone could not fail to notice, as he’ seated -hirnself near the fire, that the men at once commenced to crowd around him, and he soon found himself the center of a circle. All were looking at him and at Roder, in a grim sort of ex- pectancy. But. he gave no sign of being discomposed by their proceedings, and quietly took a sip from the black bottle that was handed him. “As you ought to feel better now,” remarked: Roder; “we would like to hear what kept you so late, if. you’ ve no objec- tion to telling us.” . “None in the world. It. is my duty to tell yon, though it is bad news that I bring. I have been among the regulators again, and have found it a rather serious business.” <P, Fa You seem to have come out of it safe “Yes but there was another man who was) not. so lucky. I told you that you had not better send Satterlee. among them again, that he wasn’t playing the game right, and that he might get into trouble.” “T remember that you spoke about it, and I meant to give him warning, but forgot it. What sort of trouble has he got into ?” “ He is in no trouble now, and never will be again in this world.” “You don’t mean to say that they have killed him »” -“ That is just what I do mean to say. They hanged him to a tree.” - comnicloooks.con