Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded; or, Red Rover at Powder Pocket.

ck was agai

face as he looked at the

me a chance for my life," he said to himself, "and I'

were that

my side, but I took him so utterly by surprise that it did not seem exactly fair. The

was too honorable with the desperat

as Deadwood

. Dick had been well fed, by the old ne

ard her singing at different times during the afternoon

n sang together in the main room, and

to sigh for a l

r of the room Dick was in opened,

oorway, where she stood framed in the light, clad in a g

e still here, eh?

once, coming out o

Dick. "I would remain, even were I

e that you are secure. Let me feel of those handcuffs before

; feel to your

did

re as safely my prisoner as I was yours o

remind me of i

l call you up, for some deeds are more ag

I supp

uld have the ill lu

here when you want me. I may be a little hard to awake

e awakened,

d secured the door, and after a t

Deadwood Dick rose

occupied for some moments at something,

is jacket pocket, and took a key from his mouth, where it ha

ed to the window and carefully worke

chair under it and p

iste

as to be h

stened again, and all was

ll opening, and presently had succeeded in getting h

, and at last came as far as his knees, holding

e stopped a moment

and swung down, hanging by his legs, and

nd turn over and land upon his feet, and he did it wi

his weapons,

forward immediately, taking the greatest ca

cabin, so far as his steps were concerned, and he then

the treasure, and would then put all the distance po

ain, and in due time return

t I am gone, I imagine," he said to himself. "I would lik

would have no chance whatever for his

there was enough light

s he remembered it, and he had taken

o have been fought but where he had been cut down b

to the top of the little peak on which the treasure ha

night, and unfamiliar as he was wit

accomplished, aft

on the

e to rest, before proceeding further

art, and he was on

w that he was not mistaken

d his shoulder to it at the point where Captain Jo

put forth all his strength by surging against it, Dick now did t

e cavity, and there was the bag of mo

cond, and did not sto

top of the peak before disco

look for the treasure, and while he was doing that Di

e no trail that they could follow, havi

d what had taken p

uin had entered the room to bring

y in the cache, and the Red Rover would lead the wa

he edge of the plateau to begin the descent, the light of torches flashed out of the gulch be

ck was in a