"If I surrender to you, with this bag of money intact, will you allow me to go free?"
"Yes, we'll do that," was the prompt answer. And every one of them voiced approval. They were prompt and liberal with their promises, if he would surrender at once.
Deadwood Dick laughed at them.
"It is too plain a case," he said. "That is not the kind of a bargain I am going to make with you, however."
"You won't trust us?"
"Not a bit."
"You will have to, or we will starve you out. And at the first sight we get of you we'll pick you off."
"Try that, my friends, and every hour I remain here I will burn ten thousand dollars of this money. I have got money to burn, not only figuratively, but actually."
"Curse you! What terms do you want?"
"Ha! I thought you would presently recognize that I hold the better hand," said Dick.