Deadwood Dick's Big Deal; or, The Gold Brick of Oregon — page 95: what you’re looking at

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oo. | DEADWOOD DICK. oF raining camp, where “Loom” was just getting a grip. “We'll camp here,” Dick announced, for he was dis- guised, “It strikes me this place may pan out what i A week passed, however, before they made any “graft.” “Then it was ouly by Dick’s chancing to drop into a ' gaming saloon and noticing that the red beard of a newly arrived player was false. He took up a position where he could watch, and gave his pals a signal to follow when he left. When the red-bearded man arose and left the place, after winning largely, Deadwood Dick left also. Unseen, he dogged him from the town and to a newlybuilt shanty half a mile below. Satisfied he had struck a lead, the Sport then set Tom Dare to watch the place. The next day Tom came in with the report that he had. seen Chester and Calamity about the shanty. “We'll call upon ’em to-night,” Dick said. “They evi- dently have no idea we are here.” Such proved to be the case, for when they suddenly pounced down upon the place that night, the door was open and the two were at supper, but the child was not visible. Calamity arose with a pale face as. Dick and his men filed into the shanty. “Sir!” she cried, “in what way am I indebted for this honor?” | “In no way, further than one thief is indebted to an- other,” was Dick’s response. “Good fortune, it seems, put me on the righ. trail, and I am here to negotiate for the possessicn of my son.” “Negotiate!” She uttered 2 hard laugh. “I perhaps don’t catch your m “Evidently not. T will try to make it plainer. Of course > I could have come here and demanded the child, and if needs be have taken it by force. Such a plan don’t seem hardly necessary As man and wife a separation has taken place between us, and you'll acknowledge it but natural Se ee Ot cnr che” “Very likely. Go on.” “As As this matter of abduction is not desirable, T propose we decide here, for good and all, who keeps the boy, and Comichbooks: com. Fay