DAYS OF RETRIBUTION.
When Merry had dismissed the men, he turned back into the cabin and sat down near the table.
“Well, that’s the end of that business, Bart,” he said.
“Yes,” nodded Hodge, sitting opposite. “I congratulate you on the way you handled those men, Merry. No one else could have done it as well. If ever I saw a collection of land pirates, it was that bunch.”
Frank smiled.
“They were a pretty tough set,” he confessed; “but they were just the men I needed to match the ruffians Sukes set against me.”
Milton Sukes was the chief conspirator against Frank in the schemes to deprive him of the Queen Mystery Mine.
“Sukes will hire no more ruffians,” said Hodge.
“I should say not. He has perpetrated his last piece of villainy. He has gone before the judgment bar on high.”
“And the last poor wretch he deluded is an imbecile.”