Horseshoe Ned fell heavily from his box to the ground, and the team stopped. Surgeon Powell also reeled, clutched at his revolver, and, turning, fired.
His shot killed the pretended Detective Raymond, though he received a bullet himself in the shoulder, and dropped from the coach to the ground.
Half-stunned as he was by the blow, and wounded, too, while the fall gave him a severe shock, he was no match for the outlaw chief, and the two men who leaped from the coach upon him.
He was quickly secured, disarmed, and the manacles taken from Silk Lasso Sam were put upon him.
There were others who had appeared upon the scene during this unequal combat. They were two men who quickly looked about for Raymond, but found him dead.
Then they turned to the chief and said that they had been ordered to that point to meet him, and had horses near.
The chief, aided by one of the pretended detectives, assisted Surgeon Powell along the bank to where the horses awaited them, the other men following soon after, with the booty taken from the coach.
Surgeon Powell appeared half-dazed from his blow, but he made no resistance, and was mounted upon one of the horses that was there.
“You must go with me, Surgeon Powell, for I do not wish to kill you, and you are too dangerous a man to leave behind,” said the chief.
Frank Powell made no reply, and, mounting, the chief, his prisoner, and four men set off down the valley.