“What does it mean?” said one.
“It means that they’ve settled down there with the determination to starve us out, unless driven away by some other force, and I don’t know where our rescuers are to come from. We have food in plenty, but no water, and without drink we cannot eat. If those chaps hang on, and no one comes to help us, we must charge on them, or we shall starve alive.”
[CHAPTER XXXI.]
WIPED OUT.
“Hurrah!”
With a wild cheer the two monsters of the plains were directed upon the startled robbers as they came into view.
The outlaws were taken by surprise, and were thrown into confusion by the very unlooked-for charge.
Sinyaro, the outlaw leader, was the only man of his party who seemed to retain possession of his coolness.
Drawing his revolvers from his belt, the leader of the robber band shot down one of his own men who had turned his horse with the intention of running from the terrifying monsters.
As the man fell dead from the back of his horse the chieftain reined in, and his voice rang out in command: