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16 éd them up, the disguise of the» outlaw as well, they crept around to the narrow trail, where they knew they were safe, CHAPTER XXII, AN UNUSUAL ENDING, DANDY Dick was in despair. How the man had been snatched out of his power was a mys- tery.’ He could not understand it. It was something that he would have said wasan utter impossibility. ‘* Barney,” he spoke, *‘after all our trouble, all our planning, we have met defeat for a third time. Are we never to have the revenge that is justly ours? I begin to fear it.” ‘*it begins to look that way, begob!” cried Barney. ‘‘ But, come; let us hasten to the camp, an’ maybe Oi will have a chance to settle the score wid that murtherin’ villainavy a Maron. Sure, we know he is there,” **T am afraid not, Barney, This rescue of the chief of the rascals seems to indicate that they have circunivented us in some way, and that he has hada hand init, Itis possible tuat woman has been the means of blocking our plans again, though I do not see how.” “Nor I aythur, begob, But we can’t do harrum to her, afther what she has done for us, Mastber Dick.” “Indeed, no. But, come, let us don our disguises again, and get to the iy sR n second thought, however, Dick decided not to reassume the disguise, and they set out immediately, clothed as they were, When they entered the camp their appearance created a sensation, and when they went straight to the hotel, and Dick madea prisoner of Walton Turgee, great excitement prevailed. Dick sent immediately for Jackson Dunbarge, and in a manner that admitted of no delay, and which was sare to bring him, and the czar was speedily on hand with all his men at his back. He had expected to meet a horde of outlaws, or to find the camp in their possession, Seeing the Euglishman and bis flunky so transformed, filled him with greatest amaze- ment, but Dick hurriedly explained, telling his story. That story was listened to with amazement and awe, and the camp was fired with indigna- tion and a desire to lynch the arch demon. Horsemen were soon got ready, and, headed by Dick, they made araid on that mountain cavern, taking prisoner a man who happened to be there, and carrying away whatever was worth taking, or that was needed in proving Danewood and Deyil Duval to have been one and the same, The prisoner showed the white feather imme- diately, and was only too eager to tell all he could. Arriving at the camp, he was given a hear- ing, when he disclosed some facts of interest. The chief of the band Bad been Hugh Dogan, or ‘* Wardman Steelforth *—as we have known of him,’ Devil Duval had fallen in with him, and _ they had joined forces. Dogan wanted to carry off Flora Dunbarge, while Duval wanted to win her in marriage. They had suspected each other, and had been on the watch. At last Dogan succeeded in kidnapping her, but Duval was ready for him, and the result has been shown, {t was a clever play on the part of Duval, and it won his cause for him with Mr. Dunbarge. The woman they had tried to take in the first instance had been Mary Warne, in her disguise as ‘* Inez Monica,” “Walton Turgee,” who admitted that his true name was Hamps, wasanother of the band, He told about Morgan’s taking the hotel to serve his purpose as a disguise while he planned the robbery of the bullion storehouse of the Gold Drop Mine, a scheme he and the man Dogan had hatched. And then came Rusty Leary with a story of a scene that had taken place in bis saloon late on the previous night. Bad-man Ben had come in fora third shave, ordering & strip to be taken out under his jaw. He was-uhder the influence Of drink, and was the last man in the saloon. ‘When the woman barber got him in the chair, he suddenly stood over bim like a tigress, Dandy Dick Decoyed. es ce ae a ee ee _— threatening to cut his throat if he did not tell her something she desired to know, He was the worst frightened man Leary had ever seen, and he gave the information without a murmur. Thisexplained much. Dandy Dick bad known that the barber was no other than the woman, Pearl Mayne, in disguisepand also that Bad- man Ben was Owen Maron, This was the means she had taken to make him reveal the identity of Morgan. Next morning she was on the watch for him, and perhaps Maron with her, and by that means must have seen him go out of the camp, followed, and so must have come about. the rescue in the manner shown. So it had been, and the guess was near the truth, It is quite useless to explain every detail. It had been a hard struggle this time—a ** tough tussle,” indeed. It had been a game of wits, backed up by the keenest acting possible. Dick and his party had got ov track of their foe, and had come to Satan’s Delight prepared for a hard campaign. The outlaws, on the other hand, had discovered them before their work was begun, had learned their plans for the first move, and laid counter plots with the success the opening chapters show, They had not known, however, that Dick was prepared for a sudden change of disguise, should the case re- quire it, and had everything for it carefully hid away in the bills, As soon after their escape as possible they had assumed the second disguise, and had made their appearance in the camp before it could be sus- pected that they had had time to appear in new concealment of identity, Needless to say that the old fcrtune-teller was Dick’s brave helper, Mary Warne! And this made known, other points can be readily understeod without ex- planation. With success so near—that is, the only success he craved—a meeting with his foe, Dandy Dick felt his disappointment the more. He was al- most discouraged, but he would not—could not give up. The wrongs he had suffered were of too great magnitude for anything but death to satisfy—the death of his implacable foe, Once again did he register his vow, and his allies with him, that life and all shonld be laid on the altar of their vengeance, Meanwhile, of course, steps bad been taken toward capturing the outlaw, if he had escaped with bis life, but all.in vain. A thorough sur- vey of the plateau revealed the fact that there was another trail leading to it, coming from another direction, but lower down, passing a few feet under the Jedge of the upper plateau on the -e‘t. From that point the lariat had been thrown, and to that point, if he had escaped, the chief had been drawn after his sudden taking from the ledge above. It had been a daring chance for life, and one which he would never have risked of bis own will, perhaps. Had it been a successful one? Or had all found death in the gorge? Noone could say, though nothing was to be found of either the chief, Bad-man, or the woman barber, from that hour. If alive, they knew it would be death to them to appear at the camp, so they must have hasten- ed away. Arrests had followed, and no mercy wasshown the rascals, where the proof was positive, With the next stage that left the camp went Dandy Dick and bis allies, leaving behind them warmest friends, Where they were going, and what their next move would be, no one could say. All depended upon the future movements of their enemy. What was to be the next scene in this drama of vengeance? THE END, — ee Beadle’s Half-Dime Library. —__ --__ -—__ BUFFALO BILL NOVELS. BY COL. 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