A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.
The two villains had no sooner tumbled from their steeds than the rest of the horses scattered in every direction, their riders flopping about upon them like a set of scarecrows.
"By thunder!" ejaculated Lank Edwards. "If them ain't dummies on them horses I'm a living sinner!"
"You are right," returned Van. "Come! we will go out and see if Doc Clancy and his partner are really dead."
The words scarcely left our hero's lips when Doc Clancy suddenly sprang to his feet, and, mounting his horse, sped away with the speed of the wind.
It all happened so quickly that our friends were unable to make a move to stop him.
Lank Edwards again raised his rifle to his shoulder, and was about to shoot at the fleeing villain, when Van detained him.
"Don't!" said he. "I want to capture him alive, if possible."
"But he'll git away," persisted the mate.
"Well, let him; we will catch him again."