outlaws entered Cade's Canyon amid the mountains

ed, chief," said one of

oy. "I didn't sleep much in Elreno jail, for I

mmed hats, and Frank was not able to study their features. However, he h

of time, and he was beginning to believe that he must be the perfec

em would detect the diffe

Elreno jail. I'll have weapons, and I can fight. I ma

he was passing. Somehow, now that he had escaped being lynched, he believed he

was soon in possession of a pair of fine weapons. With

leeping, but he entered the h

assed, while Frank pretended to sleep. At day

the verge of a chasm that opened down into the lower de

ved there years before the opening of Oklahoma to settlement, and had died there in tha

ight mind would have built a cabin in such a place. It looked as if the building was c

outlaws h

led to the cabin loft. They were s

abin, and this the boy opened. He thrust his head out, and found he was

nd wonder, a coil of rope. He examined this, and found a stout clasp

what use old Cade had put the

his water from the

here was no other apparen

ght. They had left sentinels in both directions, up and down the canyon, so

when Frank went fort

e half-blood peered out from beneath the blanket, which was drawn up over his head. The boy saw the fellow'

t counterpart of Black Harry, else he would arouse

y, as if he was going a short distance. He believed he could do so without being

e anothe

could

een carried away by Black Harry's Braves, he was branded in

emained among the outlaws, they were liable to discover how they had been fooled, and that would make them furious. If he

rape!" thought the boy,

ask himself

impulse was on him to get away as soon as possible, but his sober j

pless for the time. Although he longed to fight

tion to stay with the outlaws and keep

or later, and Frank longed to see the

get away, but Frank was not built of ordinary m

the cabin, seeming

en began to stir. Several of them came

musical blast of a bugle, causing the outlaw

ed, and it

ned sharply on Fra

oes tha

same time feeling for his revolvers, wit

he man's lips. "And that means tr

t!" cried se

the cabin, there was a hustling for a

elf. "By that he must mean it is the

blood tinglin

arry wa

ave a chance to strike a blow for