Is this a hold-up ?" At the same instant Rosalind and two of the women came rushing from their dressing tent, alarmed and indignant.

Miss Marmaduke, her eyes blazing, confronted the stage director.
"What does this mean, Mr.Ramsay ?" she cried.

"That old man ordered us out of our dressing-room at the point of a revolver, and--see! There he is now doing the same to the men." It was true.

Anderson Crow, with a brace of horse pistols, was driving the players toward the centre of the stage.

In a tremulous voice he commanded them to remain there and take the consequences.