"Well, I hardly think your plan worked, then, for I took the trouble to right the sign a little while ago. Well, what do you think of this business, anyhow? Sorry you came to Forbidden Pass, are you not?"
"Oh, no. This is pretty bad for me just now. But it won't last very long. If you want to save trouble you had better release me, and the others you have got here, and then light out somewhere. If you don't you will only be sorry for it. You think you have got the best of me now, but in a short time you will find out that it will be just the other way. You don't suppose that I came here without knowing just what I was doing, do you?"
"Well, you couldn't have known just what you were doing or this wouldn't have happened."
Roche motioned toward the prisoners.
"It was a poor way for you to win out, this letting us get you and those others, I think," he added.
"Well, of course, I did not expect anything like this to happen," Wild answered, coolly. "That was a pretty good scheme your men put through when they got me. But let me tell you that my two partners have gone to get a crowd of miners to come here and clean, you out. They know just how to get in, for they have seen the curtain raised in front of the opening that leads in here. But they knew all about that last night, for I followed you here and saw you come in. I told them all about it, and they know just what to do now."
Cap Roche looked uneasy.
He did not relish the idea of the miners of Big Bonanza finding out about the cave.
And he was now pretty certain that they would.
The fact that he was known to be the leader of the outlaws made it impossible for him to go back to Silver Bend, too.