She started like a watch-spring uncoilin', and as she spurts down the streets I leans clean over to her mane and looks back and there I seen Dan standin' in the door with his gun in his hand and the wind blowin' his hair.

But he didn't shoot, because the next second I was swallowed up in the dark and couldn't see him no more." "But it was no use!" cried the girl.

"With Black Bart to trail you and with Satan to carry him, he overtook you--and then----" "He didn't," said Buck Daniels.

"I'd fixed things so's he couldn't get started with Satan for some time.

And before he could have Satan on my trail I'd put a long stretch behind me because Long Bess was racin' every step.