erriwell was Frank's deadly enemy

sher Merriwell, the bro

chelor, a man who had never cared for women and had never married. But he ha

had a son, but the marriage had been kept a secret, so that when she deceived him and they quarreled th

erself as the wife of Asher Merriwell. In her veins the

t providing for and educating the boy, although Carlo

ld and reckless young blade, making no a

lood in the lad's veins, and it cost the man no small sums to

nd see the world for himself, and he disapp

committed a crime in a foreign country, where he was tr

ll was concerned, and he straightway proceeded

by guards while attempting to escape from prison, and Ash

ovided that Frank should travel under the guardianship of Professor Scotch, as the ecc

he had been cut off without a dollar and everything had been left to Frank, Carl

enough to see that he might have trouble in proving himself the son

ced himself and made a fight for the property, he would be forced to tell the truth con

te. If he could not have his father's property, he

mad attempts on Frank's life, both of which were baffled, a

h ill-gotten gains, so he was able to put spies on Frank. He hired pr

Frank set about upon his travels, and he

he escaped through his own exertions, and t

d Frank had neither seen nor heard from him till this moment,

that Carlos had not been able to deceive him. From the first, Frank had belie

at had been hidden by the false beard-a s

a helpless heap, so completely asto

s, he simp

iny Gr

tion of fury broke

grated, his hand disappearing beneath the r

er, was on the alert, and was watching for just such a move. With a twisting movement, he drew his body a

aid, as he whirled and c

rist a wrench that forced a cry from the fellow's

ent your adeptness with a dagger comes from your mother's side. Your face is dark an

lamation, making a desperate mov

een lucky. You were lucky at Fardale, and you were lucky in New York. Now you h

d to your threa

threats that sha

! I would have met you on even terms, an

e robbed me of what is rightfully mine, and I have sworn

s, as he found he could not tear

alls and a clatter of hoofs. All

es! lad

ves fleeing to shelter. Spanish oaths sounded on

Dunnerwust. "Uf we don'd peen in a

Professor Scotch. "They have charg

r the bandits! They are my friends

rank, and the boy flung Carlos aside, ma

sweep toward Frank's head, but the blow was sto

ft of the words, and he knew his cousin had not saved

money. If Frank were killed, there was little chance that he would ever handle a dollar of th

of the terrible peril that o

t against the wall. Upward were flung hi

the first two bullets from t

ms were pressing upon him, and he must fall into the clutches of the ban

!" he muttered, through his set teet

of the revolvers, and the cracking of the

dark figures fling up their arms and topp

ofessor, for he could see nothing of either, a

ought was that not a bullet should be wasted, and then he feared he woul

ey had no heart to stand up before a lad who could shoot with the skill of a

o or three of their number fall before the fire from Frank's revolvers

led me ged a few pullets

k saw the Dutch lad on the ground at his fe

u down there

der dime und ged in der vay der pullets uf? Vell, you may

t, Hans. I admir

y you vork dose revolfers. Dot peat

th a double burden swept p

rank Merriwell

cried Frank. "It is t

vos on d

a cap

vat h

they? We must pursue! What

haf dooken the

belonging to the bandits, but the desperadoes had

fessor Scotch had been captured and

and heard a mocking, cold-blooded laugh that h

growing fainter and fainter, till they left the town