"Who were they?"
Quickly the fellow reeled off some names that Marjorie and Helen declared belonged to none of whom they had ever heard.
"Who sent you, Dillaby or old Rozier?" thundered Jesse.
"Neither. We were going to join a posse to patrol the town when we saw them ride from Lawyer Perkins' house."
"You're lying. I can tell by the sound of your voice," interrupted the world-famous desperado. "But it doesn't make any difference.
"After we've taken your weapons away from you, I'm going to send you back to the Springs.
"Now listen carefully. I want you to tell the people how you shot at three defenceless women, how we surprised you and what we did to your women-shooting companions.
"Tell them that if they ever try to harm a hair on the head of Jesse James' sister, he'll hound them to hell!"
During the awful threat, Cole and his brothers had removed the pistols, knives and cartridges from the prisoner's clothes and as the famous outlaw saw they had finished the task, he roared: