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a SS — ~~ eee = “‘Great ham-bone! Ef I hed secha grudge ag’in’ Boe like you, Dicky, I’'d go and drown myself, | woul), sw’ar if I wouldn’t. Yer grit reminds me, sum’a’t o’ that o’ old Huldah Pen- eroil, up in Dakota, She war a tremendous ugly-lookin’ woman, an’ every time she looked in a look’g-glass, she’d git madder ’an a hornet at herself an punch ther stuffin’ out o’ ther lookin’-glass. One day she resolved ter commit susanside, and hired a feller ter tie her heels ter ther tail o’ a buffler,and Lordy! ye orter see’d her snagged along. Et war beauchiful, an’ I an’ my old goat Flaence Night-in-a-gale nigh about bu’sted our sides a-laftin’. That war the last ever see’d of Huldah.” ‘“T haven’t got any oo grudge against myself,” Deadwood Dick Seabee ‘*T have made my mind up to do it, and no sort of argu- ment will change my decision. You will act as I have directed, Calamity?” “To the letter, Dick,” the Girl Sport replied, in a choked voice. ‘ You are not going?” ‘* Yes, Jennie, for I have other matters to at- tend to. Good-by, my friend,” and Deadwood Dick clasped her hand warmly in his. ‘*I hope when I look upon your face again, it will be as a free man.” Then, after shaking hands all around, the Prince of the Road took his departure, riding rapidly toward Leadville. As he was passing through a ravine near the town, four men stepped from the chaparral, and raised their hats to him, in salutation. | “ All right,” he said, without drawing rein. ‘Be ready at sunset, and act according to my directions. I guess the matter can be managed all right.” Then, he galloped on. CHAPTER XII. EXIT DEADWOOD DICK! A crowD of people in the main street of Lead- ville—men, women, and children, the sun rising over the eastern chain of snow-capped moun- tains; a man, bareheaded, standing upon a box in the midst of the crowd, and that man, Dead- wood Dick! Such was the scene. ‘* My hearers,” the Prince of the Road said, coolly, ‘‘ you behold before you, the notorious road-agent, Deadwood Dick, come to deliver himself up to justice. I ask your attention but a moment, and then you shall have the pleasure of witnessing my skill asa tight-rope performer. ‘* My career has been one strangely eventful, and in bringing it to a close, I wish to thank my Maker for his nag mercies to me, and also rou, my pilgrims, for the contributions you may ba tendered me, generally speaking. Indeed, you have panned out handsomely, Some of ou may say that my life as a road-agent has en highly criminal. I don’t agree with you on that score, for where I have tapped you, I have done so in a gentlemanly manner, and have, as a rule, circulated the spoils among poor and needy families. At any rate, | have not a cent in the world, now, that was not honestly rned. ear? I have aided a few ruffianly characters in getting a grand send-off, to be sure, but they were the worst of human brutes, and feared neither God nor man, and whose lives were a curse to the country, and a discredit to the name of man. Ionly wish I could drop a few more of them, but have concluded to let out that job to some one else. “Therefore, in balancing my accounts, I have not much to regret. But the law has seen fit to regard me as a ferocious criminal, and not wish- ine to offend the law—the great, majestic law— I do deliver myself up to be lynched from the nearest limb of the nearest tree. I see below me, here, in the crowd, four officials of the law, from Deadwood, and as I know they are anx- ious to assist me off, I will surrender myself to them!” ** And we claim ig: you, in the name of the law came the cry, and the four bewhiskered individ- uals Deadwood Dick had indicated, sprung upon the box, and took possession of him, while the crowd yelled and cheered lustily. No ceremony was there cued. in giving the Prince of the Road the send-off he had desired, by these four men from Deadwood. He was borne between them beneath an ad- jacent tree, and a rope was fixed around his neck by one of themen. Then, at a signal from him, the other three threw the other end of the rope over the limb of the tree, and they all seized it, ready to launch the cool road-agent into eternity. “Have you any word to leave or any prayers te mike?” asked the rope-adjuster, grimly.” “No prayers to make, as 1 made them before ep a —— SS SSS Deadwood Dick _———~— = _ —o — ——_-—- --— - —— <r — — - I gave myself up,” Deadwood Dick said, cool- ly. “If, however, you will deliver my body, . ’ in Leadville. | after death to my friends, Calamity Jane and — Old Avalanche, they will have me taken care | of, as 1 have given them proper instructions. That’s all—pull ahead!” And they did pull, and the body of the famous road-agent was suspended in mid-air. He gave a few struggles, and then was quiet. In five minutes he was lowered to the ground, | and after a short examination, the executioner | turned to the crowd: ‘* Deadwood Dick is dead!” he said. ‘‘ He has paid the penalty of the law, and you can ask | no more. is body belongs to Calamity Jane. Until she comes forward to. claim it, I hold it. Please to disperse, and go your ways, and let the dead lie in peace!” The words had the effect to disperse the crowd, when a wagon drove up, containing Calamity Jane and a rough coffin box. Into this the body of Deadwood Dick was placed, and then the wagon was driven rapidly away. A few more words; then we close the book of this veracious chronicle. 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