"
It was soon plain that this view prevailed among the quartette.
As they turned to move away, the leader remarked:
"We'll leave you for a while, Dunlop, but don't image you've won.
Don't get any notion that you'll ever win. You'll hear from us
again."
"And you'll hear a plenty as long as your hearing remains good,"
snarled another of the men.
The four disturbers, turning their backs, started down the sloping
trail.
"Oh, but I'm glad we've seen the last of them!" shuddered one
of the women of the Dunlop party.
"Don't be deceived into thinking that the last has been seen of
that crew, madam," spoke Tom Reade gently. "Those fellows will
be heard from again, and at no very distant hour, either. Mr.
Dunlop---I believe that is your name, sir?"
The stout man bowed.
"Mr. Dunlop," Reade went on, earnestly, "I urge you to get these
women and the child away from here as soon as you can. Also any
of the men who may happen to have no taste for fighting. I don't
believe you'll see those four men in the open any more, but there'll
be more than one shot fired from ambush.
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