If he resists, kill him on the spot, and nobody'll blame you; if he goes peaceably with you, and you once get him in Excelsior jail, when the story gets out that he's taken the belle of Excelsior for his squaw, if you'd the angels for your posse you couldn't keep the boys from hanging him to the first tree.

What's that ?" He walked to the window, and looked out cautiously.
"If it was the old man coming back and listening," he said, after a pause, "it can't he helped.

He'll hear it soon enough, if he don't suspect something already." "Look yer, Brace," broke in Dunn hoarsely.

"D--d if I understand you or you me.

That dog Low has got to answer to ME, not to the LAW! I'll take my risk of killing him, on sight and on the square.