The acme magazine . -gling, where a compact group of menwere following his trail, as surely andunrelentingly as bloodhounds. Even ashis glance flashed down at them therecame the returning flash of sunlight on aleveled rifle barrel into his eyes, and heducked and slipped around the bend. Ashe did so a bullet flattened against therock behind where his head had been. Steve Finter, he thought other man can shoot like this. Hemust have seen my head bob up. But itdont make any difference now. Theyrehot on my trail, and seeing me cantmake them come any faster. This morn-ing they were four h
The acme magazine . -gling, where a compact group of menwere following his trail, as surely andunrelentingly as bloodhounds. Even ashis glance flashed down at them therecame the returning flash of sunlight on aleveled rifle barrel into his eyes, and heducked and slipped around the bend. Ashe did so a bullet flattened against therock behind where his head had been. Steve Finter, he thought other man can shoot like this. Hemust have seen my head bob up. But itdont make any difference now. Theyrehot on my trail, and seeing me cantmake them come any faster. This morn-ing they were four hours away, nowtheyre less than one. # If I can only getup to my cabin I wont mind. I can pickoff Steve from there, and maybe someof the others before they close in. I—Ihope Luisita aint to home. Around the bend the narrow pathbroadened and flattened into a small pla-teau or valley which cut back into themountain like a wedge. Across thisplunged a little stream, on the banks ofwhich were two or three miners Beyond, the mountain again rose sheer,and well up on the face of this was SelsPessners cabin. Here he and Steve Fin-ter-had worked together, in seeming har-mony, until one day Steve had slippeddown to the mining camp below and ac-cused his partner of having robbed andattempted to murder him, and of being ahorse thief and contemplating other boldrobberies in the neighborhood in the nearfuture, and had so ingratiated himselfwith the sheriff as to be sworn in as adeputy to help in the capture. The first intimation Sels had had ofthe accusation was seeing the sheriffsposse approaching the cabin, and almostat the same moment receiving a bullet inhis shoulder. Other bullets had follow-ed, but in some way he had then it had been running and dodg-ing, with the sheriff and his men often insight, but never allowing him to ap-proach near enough for parlev. Twodays before, he had eluded them andhurried to the mining camp, slipping inat night and conferring with s
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