Beadle's Dime Novels No. 309: Mountain Ned — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ae STANDING AT BAY. old “T don’t wondcr you say so, Curse thesmoke; I wonder What it was he threw down. It was the cutest trick I ever beard of in my life, that I will say for him, but Tl remem- ber the scoundrel, and some day IH get even with him. Look out, her@ are borsemen.” The two dashed up the rocks and concealed themselves — among the bowlders, just as a body of Comanches, perhaps a hundred strong, poured ipto the pass. At. their head, his fuce stained with blood which flowed frony a cut.over his eye, Where he had been bit by a flying fragment of the exploded bomb, rode Silver Lance, the Comanche chief. He was a no- ble looking warrior, straight as the weapon from which he took his name, with a clear cut face which only needed to be white instead of bronze to be the face of one of the ¢on- quero:s of the grand old Roman world, “The warriors bear !” he cried. ‘“ Ten horses. to the war- rior who slays tle Flying Scout; twenty to the one who brings baek the Blazing Star safe to me.” A. perfect howl of rage and grief burst from the Comanche band as they saw extended upon the bed of the canon the mMengled forms of those who had been slain by the terrible . Missile hurled by the Flying Scout. They dismounted in hot laste, and while a portion searched about for a trail, others duy graves for their slain among the debris of the eanon and laid them there, They had no time to return to the Co- Manche village or thé bodies would have been carried back to be buried according to their sacred rites. As it was they could only make graves for them where the wolves could not reach them, and lay their weapons by them as they slept the last sleep. ' As the work was finished a shout announced that a trail bad been found, and to the disgust of Mountain Ned the In- dian pointed up the rocks toward his place of refuge! It Was evident that the two whites were in an unsafe position. There was no time for flight, for half a dozen Indians were already climbing over the rocks; so, grasping bis revolvers, Mountain Ned placed his back to the naked rocks and faced the Indians boldly, Foremost among those who bounded up the rocks was Silver Lance, who uttered a shout of delight as he saw who stood at bay. lt ~~ commiclbooks.conn