[CHAPTER X.]
BLANKED.
Only two shots were fired. Before the two scoundrels in the road could send any more bullets after Matt and his friends, their car had swept back into the road and the other automobile acted as a barricade.
"Siwash must have known who we were," remarked McGlory. "How do you reckon he found that out?"
"The way we kept on going when he ordered us to halt was enough for him," said Matt.
"I'll bet it was a surprise," chuckled McGlory. "Wish I could be close to Murg when he hears about it. We're in the lead, now, and I hope we can keep it."
"If the motor hangs together," returned Black, "we'll not only keep it, but increase it. That's a murderous gang, back there," he added. "There must be something mighty important awaiting you fellows at the post trader's to cause Siwash Charley to break loose like that!"
"Murgatroyd is back of it," said Matt.
"Murgatroyd? There's a double-dyed scoundrel, if I ever knew one."