“Ki dar, Marse Frank. Stop de Man, or fo’ de Lawd we am all done fo’, suah as preachin’!”
“What?” gasped Frank.
“If yo’ don’t believe it, jes look up yonder?”
Pomp pointed one finger upward to the canyon wall above the pass. The sight which rewarded the startled gaze of the young inventor caused him to reverse the throttle and bring the Steam Man to a halt.
Two cowboys were crouching behind an enormous bowlder which they had intended to roll down upon the Steam Man.
CHAPTER VI.
THE FIGHT IN THE PASS.
A more narrow escape could hardly be imagined.
The precipitation of the huge bowlder upon the Steam Man would have destroyed the invention and the lives of those on board.
Just in time Pomp had seen the danger. Another moment and it would have been too late.
“Ki yi, don’ yo’ see now, Marse Frank?” cried Pomp, wildly.