"Ha! I know you now!" was the last desperate ruse. "You are Captain Joaquin, the outlaw!"
"Perhaps I am," said Dick.
He withdrew, and went down the street. Susana was with him.
The others, somehow, had disappeared already, and after these two turned a corner, they, too, were seen no more.
It was as if the very earth had opened and taken them in. And when, a little later, the hue and cry of a daylight robbery was raised, not a vestige of the robbers could be found.
[CHAPTER XVII.]
THE SECOND BLOW FALLS.
Powder Pocket was all excitement.
Banker Brown declared it was Captain Joaquin who had made the raid.