"As soon as they get here; I will not keep you waiting."
[CHAPTER X.]
DICK IN A DEATH-TRAP.
Deadwood Dick was again left alone.
A grim smile came over his face as he looked at the door that had just closed.
"It is a bitter pill for him to swallow, this giving me a chance for my life," he said to himself, "and I'll bet ten to one that I don't get it on the square."
The chances were that he would not.
"I was a fool, perhaps, to take the risk I did with the fellow, when the law was all on my side, but I took him so utterly by surprise that it did not seem exactly fair. The trouble is, my heart is entirely too big and too soft for the profession I am following."
It was not that; the trouble was, he was too honorable with the desperate characters with whom he had to deal.