[CHAPTER II.]
DICK'S FRUITLESS RISK.
Deadwood Dick, Junior!
He it was who had, at the risk of his life, made this break to cheat the train-robbers.
"Follow me, every man of you who has a gun!" he called out to them. "We can do these fellows up in short order, if we go for them in the right manner. Who is with me?"
There was another cheer at that.
"We're with you to a man!" some one shouted. "You lead the way, and see if we ain't."
"All right! Follow me, but if I go down, don't let that check you; go right on and you will run clear over them by force of numbers. Now, then, here we go for them!"
With that, Dick dashed out of the doors and leaped to the ground, his brace of revolvers in hand ready to do execution.
He began firing the moment he touched the ground.