ened to these wandering words from

t. Gerald Wynn is a yellow dog! He turned against me, and then he hitched up with

nd perhaps we can help Katz recover

face of Katz was bathed, his limbs were rubbed, and gradually his condition,

u, Hank?"

ou like bein' double-crossed? You and Wynn put the kib

coyote!" s

t the on

Clancy, seeking to direct the ta

z. Slowly his eyes turned to Clanc

izard!" he breathed. "Ho

that's enough

I wired him to," put in Hill. "

bet," observed Burton, "that k

go there, but Chancy held me back an

. Slowly the wonder died out of them,

you out, Burton, Wynn and I had divided. I had seventy-five hundred, all in the long green, in that dinky satchel of mine, when I came to this wikiup to join Wynn and Hogan. Them two were layin' for me. The minute

he says, 'and we're takin' the hull fifteen thousand with us. Good night, and happy dreams, Katz,' he winds up, then puts out the light, locks the fr

er than he is,"

show whether I'm better than he is, or not!" cried Katz, g

kly, "that Hogan and Wynn are intendi

they've al

a is still in the harbor. Are you as anxiou

working them back and forth to get the cramps out of them

aps we can head off Hoga

Clancy. Are you intendin' to mix t

swer. "We'll han

he ide

he fifteen tho

, after it's

to Lafe Wynn and m

, did not please Katz. Clancy saw that, an

ur just deserts and land in the Los Angeles jail. You can either

Katz humbly, "I come on the run. Give your order

at carries him between the Sylvia an

or, and there's any one ashore from her, I can take

here we w

front. Katz led the way out upon the same pier at which Clancy and Hill had taken, the glass-bottom boat to view

the Sylvia ain't got away yet. Ther

nchored in the bay. Each carried lights, and picking the S

Clancy. "Unless the yacht changed her anch

own to the floats and seein' if the Sy

uldn't prove that the Sylvia wasn't still in the har

f the Sylvia's dinghy is at the pier, then it's a lea

ocked to the floats, and among them was the Sylvia's dinghy. The dinghy, howeve

aven't left us yet–not just yet! I allow they're whoopin

via," said Burton, "and s

it make who's ashore a

t to see who comes after the dinghy, and the other two will take the dinghy and go out to the Sylvia. By mak

s end o' the pl

to the yacht, Katz. Hill and Burton will

that he and Hill would each have a man to watch. Neither Katz nor Burton would have the

y was waiting to carry them to the yacht. He felt that he could trust Burton to be

he rowin'?"

lancy. "My shoulder isn't in the rig

intereste

er with your sho

retty sure you're the one

ttered Katz, stepping into th

follo

d Wynn are together. I can't tell you what to do, except to be careful and do the best you can. There'll be no dingh

nswered Hill, "we'll either mak

ttle noise as possible. If we can't get aboard the Sylvia with

ro, fast enough

heir way through the fleet of harbor craft, coming closer and closer to the lights for which they had headed, they

the small boat to a stop under the Sylvia's side, and at

oise, gained the deck. Some one started out from t

, Lewis?" th

: With a tigerlike leap he gained the man's