They were hustled into the cabin and up to Nevada’s den. Roughly, Dago and Wan shoved them into the room. Cowboy Nevada bit so hard on his cigar as the door opened and in came the captors and captives, that he bit the end right off that cigar!
“Well look who drops in on us, Gallagher!” said Nevada. “The two kids I been wanting so long!”
Fighting to hide the conflicting emotions almost overpowering him at sight of his fine Dad sitting there in that dangerous atmosphere of crime, Stanley tried hard to avoid the G-man’s eyes. John got red and swallowed very hard. Gallagher grinned with amusement.
“So these is the kids what helped get Hogan?” he asked Nevada, softly.
“Yeh, imagine that!” said Cowboy dryly.
“Kin I take-a them out and-a drown ’em, Boss?” begged Dago.
“Dago,” said Cowboy, surprised. “I can hardly believe my ears!—Nor my eyes!”
Dago shifted uneasily on his feet, embarrassed. Hadn’t the boss expressed a wish to see the kids wiped out many a time in the last week? And now he, Dago, proposed getting rid of them pronto, the Boss was “Surprised!”
“Whatcha mean, boss?” demanded Dago.
Cowboy grinned.