"He got fifty dollars from me!"
"A hundred and ten from me!"
"Let us make him shell out!"
"We will make him shell out!" said Maybe Dixon, firmly. "He has got to pay us back every cent he took from us." He turned to Sag Ruff. "Will you do it—or will you have this?" And he shook the pistol in the gambler's face.
"I'll pay up," answered the swindler, weakly. "Don't shoot me, and I'll give up to the very last penny!"
CHAPTER XI
SAG RUFF'S THREAT
For the time being the excitement was high in the gambler's shack and Mark thought that somebody would surely be shot. The men present affirmed that they had lost about a thousand dollars between them, whereas Sag Ruff had only nine hundred dollars on hand with which to make a settlement.
"Where is the rest of the money?" demanded one man.