"Don't be alarmed, gentlemen," called out the leader. "I don't want your tin this time; I am after the chap who led the insurrection in this car awhile ago. Deadwood Dick, Junior, rise up and surrender, or we will fill you full of lead where you sit! Take your choice."
[CHAPTER III.]
CAPTAIN JOAQUIN'S CAPTURE.
"Deadwood Dick, Junior!"
The name was upon the lips of all the passengers, instantly.
They looked in Dick's direction, as he rose up as ordered, and the look on their faces would be hard to describe.
"Here I am!" responded Dick, in his firm manner. "If these passengers are willing to let you take me, so be it; I shall not kick. Better that I should surrender than that any one should get hurt, I suppose."
"Some one would get hurt if you didn't surrender, that is a certainty," Captain Joaquin declared.
The passengers were pale, and no one offered to defend the gallant Richard of the Lion Heart.