All der cops in New Haven will be in dis crib in a minute!" Fairfax Lee was still putting up a stiff fight, and the jimmy flashed in the air.

Before it could descend, Buck Badger flung himself into the midst of them, with the impetuous leap of a mountain-lion.

The man with the uplifted jimmy went down before a blow from the Kansan's fist, and the other was hurled aside.

The burglar that Lee had been fighting tore himself loose and turned toward Badger and the stairway.

Then the Westerner heard the ominous click of a revolver.