"Hush! Dad," said Kate. "It hasn't come yet! Buck, what has happened?"
"The end of the world has come for Dan," he said. "That devil
Silent—"
"Dan," cried old Joe, and rushed around the table to Buck.
"Silent has dared Dan to meet him at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Tully's saloon in Elkhead! He's held up four men in the last twenty-four hours and told them that he'll be at Tully's tomorrow and will expect Dan there!"
"It isn't possible!" cried Kate. "That means that Silent is giving himself up to the law!"
Buck laughed bitterly.
"The law will not put a hand on them if it thinks that they'll fight it out together," he said.
"There'll be a crowd in the saloon, but not a hand will stir to arrest
Silent till after the fight."
"But Dan won't go to Tully's," broke in old Joe. "If Silent is crazy enough to do such a thing, Dan won't be."
"He will," said Kate. "I know!"