"Who agrees?" asked Dick.
"I! I! I!" came from all sides.
The spy saw they were in earnest, and he began to grow anxious.
"Oh, you can’t mean that!" he said. "Why, that would be an unlawful piece of business."
"Don’t talk to us about the law, you duffer!" rumbled Singleton.
"Thank your luck you’re not in the Rio Pecos Valley," said Buckhart. "They’d hang you in the first chaparral out there."
"And serve him right, too!" exclaimed Captain Nunn.
"I promise you I shall give you the full extent of the law if you forcibly detain me," threatened Cranch.
"Go ’way back and sit down!" said Burrows. "We’ll take our chances with the law."
"And you’ll show yourself up as a pretty poor pup before the case is over if you resort to the law," said Buckhart.