He, too, disappeared around a corner before the crooks came to it.
When they were about to pass that corner a quiet voice behind them said:
“This will do. We’ll settle here.”
“All right,” responded Nat.
Both men halted and turned about.
They looked into the muzzles of two revolvers.
The face back of the hands that held the weapons was not that of their employer, Claymore, but that of their deadly enemy, Nick Carter.