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74 BLACK, ARROW, . THE, AVENGER. them down, and made all square. _ They believe that sam one of their best friends and helpers,” “What fools they must be! _But you are a powerful a, Whetstone, to pull the wool over people’s eyes. No doubt of that. .And you, got off safe, and didn’t show your hand atall ?” “ Show. amy hand!’ exclaimed Whetstone, witha. start “What do you mean by that?” + You didn’ let them know what kind of a game you 1 were playing. ., Wat, else should. mean,?” me, now, cap’n,” growled Jim Baker, who had been listening impatiently to this colloquy. “ Let's git, to, business. I'm of this durned palaver.” . Saale ou had better mind your own “business, Jim Faker, and leave. me to mind mine,” curtly replied Roder.. “I reckon I know how to do what I’ve got afore me.” __, *$o ye ort; but it’s a pity we can’t do. suthin’ without | so _ much jaw.” tate “ Hold your own jaw then. I wanted Whetstone. to tell me the rights of this affair,,and he has done it. Now, ve got _,& little story. Sei Date I he eanee tochen tt? ; “A story ?” inquired Whetstone. _._. = TEN ATED Suppose we take. a nip before I ston took a slight sip from the black pottle, and Ro- : took a deep draught. The bystanders showed the force a example by applying their lips to their bottles and canteens, with the . Fig lan of Baker, who grumbled and muttered impatiently. -Roder set down the hatile, and proceeded as fol- ws: Oe that J Baker there. He ain't such a fool. 9s . de looks to be.. You,might take him for a big fool when he is quiet, and for a heap bigger fool when he sets his, jaw to runnin’ ;. but. you .might_ be everlastin’ly mistaken.., .You know that our.men has been. droppin’ off lately, in a way.that _We don’t like at all, and a way that we can’t understand—un- less it may. be th e ghost ; for we sre all ready to..swear that “we saw the i ah Jim Baker, who won't believe in the “ghost, becanag Be didn’t peel himself. . But I know for sartin, whatever may happen, that I saw that ghost, and so SiPancy iesiier aphaaedie Gasa ob ee ieee ees oe a0 - cGommicoooks.corm + : -