Golden Days for Boys and Girls / Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

lose to him before he was aware of their presence, and it is the greatest

omers, in order to make sure of their identity, he laid his gun acro

his morning, did you, you little snipe?" he shoute

ed Dan, who had a faint idea that he understoo

very much delighted, at the way things had turned out. "Here you have been and tramped all over them mountings, and never got a cent for it, while I have ma

, up to this moment, had not been able to do

ithout help from any one, and that was more than fifty ot

"Hold on there!" he added, turning fiercely upon his prisoner, who just then moved uneasily upon the be

rposed. "You've got him tied up too tight.

xclaimed Silas; "and I won't let the rope out not

Byron's Corsair, seemed to be a mild-mannered man. "I have been tied up ever

exclaimed Silas. "Come away from the

you going to do with your captive? Do you i

scared me," replied Silas, dropping the butt of his g

any length of time; he always w

, 'cause- Why, just look a-here, Joey," added Silas, moving up to the door, and

on the table, where Silas had placed it, a belt containin

ued Silas, "and if this feller'

g," interrupted Dan. "Bri

d, and finally he turned an inquiring glance

at there is them in the world that are just as lucky and smart as you be, don't it? Yes,

hat, he hit the nai

think you ought to keep this man here all night. The sheriff is now at Mr. Warren's house, and it

ction on the part of Silas and Dan that m

rose from the bench and stamped his feet to set the blood in circulation again, his exci

't think this man is foolish enough to try to run off while his han

"When you and Dan went away this morning, I just naturally shouldered my gun, walked up the road to the foot of the mountin

at night, and the ferryman was prepared to give him a warm reception. Before he devoted himself to the task of holding down that log by the roadside, he took the trou

out popped this feller. He was running like he'd been sent for, and that's why I suspicioned him. Of course I didn't know him from Adam, but I asked him would he stop

other now?"

. "She helped me figger up what I would get for catching him, and then she dug out. I'm worth almost as much as you be now, Joey, and that

y altercation which might end in a fight or a foot-race between his father and Dan. "

ive hundred when I give up the prisoner?" inquired Sil

rse he

for wo

haps it was never put into his hands at

re of my money," said Silas, reflectively. "I guess

the law," said Joe, decidedly. "If you don't give him up of

ny sense in such a law as that, but he

hear and see all that was said and done when the prisoner was turned over to the officers of the law imp