Look at his face!"
"Bart, go out to Satan!"
The wolf trotted from the room.
"My God, Buck, I've done all this for nothin'! It was Silent that got
away!"
"What's that?"
Over the groans of the wounded came the sound of running horses, not
one, but many, then a call: "Close in! Close in!"
"The posse!" said Dan.
As he jerked open the door a bullet smashed the wood above his head.
Three horsemen were closing around Satan and Black Bart. He leaped
back into the room.
"They've got Satan, Buck. We've got to try it on foot. Go through the
window."
"They've got nothing on me. I'll stick with Haines."
Dan jumped through the window, and raced to the shelter of a big rock.
He had hardly dropped behind it when four horsemen galloped around the
corner of the house.
"Johnson and Sullivan," ordered the voice of Monte sharply, "watch
the window. They're lying low inside, but we've got Barry's horse and
wolf. Now we'll get him."
"Come out or we'll burn the house down!" thundered a voice from the
other side.
"We surrender!" called Buck within.
A cheer came from the posse. Sullivan and Johnson ran for the window
they had been told to guard. The door on the other side of the house
slammed open.
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