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? /?/// Ooima i'j Uei th- Home* t<. 8e*4 Hir h<>i?> it. for, Ift tmm Late. //.<;?- Mi. Bog*." ll> CoMetu?ei Simplg, wor>t for you. I've had way eye on you two fel? lows for a long time." The dangerous blue of D*ckinatM*e eyes be? gan to flame red. He half made as though to spring on his tormentor; hnt the watchful ritle in tiie other's hand- held him l>aek fuming. The Hanger chuckled jeeringly at his helpless rai?e. It was just sueh a game as he del gated in, to harass a powerless- adversary. He was enjoying the situation thoroughly. .Ml of a sudden. "What shall we do with hint, I>ick?" came a -pint voice, causing the Ranger to wheel quick I jr. From a bush not three yards ijehind him protruded the lean barrel of a ritle. the sun glinting idue along the knife edge of the fore sight which was exactly ou a line with his eyes. rv< KI.\S(>\ fell hack with a howl of laughter and rolled Hutching hi- -ido- in an agony of merriment while CSbane Stepped out with a grim smile about the corner- of hi> mouth and re? lieved the flabbergasted Ranger of his gun. "Now we can talk." he -aid. handing the weapon to Dickin-o:i. who took it weakly in his doughy hand-, and with monkey like glee. Iictwten the fits that cramped h m breathless on the ground, carefully wiped his fingers all over the lock mechani-m, clogging it irredeemably. **t>ii lardy, lordy." he ga-[?cd. "I.emtm? look at his face. He He w:i- goin' to arre-t us. Snake?you an* me. for killin' a Noah's ark full of beasts." "So I heard. And now we're going to talk the matter over comfortably. Sit down. Mr. Han? ger Wilson, I wouldn't keep you standing for wor-r-hls. So you were go ng to arrest us under regulation thirtv-two. t h .' Now t< il us all altout it." Heyond a string of oaths and muttered threats altout resisting an officer of the govern? ment, the Hang, r made no reply. ??< ome on. m>w ; that won't do." warned tl'Shane with a tightening of th? lips. "We're not resisting any legal arrest, but you've got to have reasonable proof tiefore you can arrest us. It's up to you to -how your band." "Well." snarled the other at last, "two ele phalli have been kill'ti in the Sbwe-Gyi bills an?l tha ivory out oat, my men have found the car eaae? und it's my duty to recover rh, Ivors and arrest tovj two fcllowi a- bting tha culprits," "Why, you lyin' hop toad," flared Dickinson, "you know darn well we ain't done no kill n', an' we can prove it. There's one of Tout own k(<-j?Ts, Maun'' Bnw, bein in an' out our camp ?sore*? a week, an' he know-, we ain't done no two days trek to Bhast Oyi an' back, to tay nothin' of stay in* ottr to -hoot ivory." The black ecowl on tin Banger's face deep* eared, pad he inwardly our-vd the keeper. "Well," he admitted |llulgiagTjr. "if you didn't shoot them, Muhey il'd it ahu.? ." "Then why don't you a-k Muhey about the ivory'.'" queried O'Shane. "Cause he's dead, earns him." trritted Wilson. "The Hell you say!" froni bath men. "II',?'.'" "Trample*1. Mauhd to a pulp, and -cue him right, toe. Il< gat two and cached 'he ivery, and men the thin, fjmi him. arid now it's rny duty to the governm? nt t<< recov? r the ivory, and 1 ar rcat you for collu-ion." "Oh no, you don't," pumd O'Shane. *TtBiiaa BtSW can prove that we haven't wren poor old Mai* vey since he left our camp a week mWM "n his way up; so you have no laTff?I grounds for arrc-t hnj us, and you can just run alonir home. As we like to k? ep our camp clean Wrf won't ?ah you to stay to dinner; and," he added as an after? thought. "I think we -hall have to keep your trun till you're in a better humor, else you might try some sniping on fan." "Huh. give'm his irun." ohuckbd Dickinson. "It"- -afe. It'll take h'm a day to dig out its in? ternal economy so it'll work." Til Untried Banger snrletary withdrew. vhnMs * tive hate gaaehraj from hi- eve-. When he wa at what h* considered a safe di-tance. he shook hi- fist and shouted. "All ri"h\ you fellow-: 111 get square with you for this yet. you watch out and see." With the same cr'm -mile alinut his lip-. O'Shane coolly lifted his rifle and plante?! a bul? let a foot to the r:t*ht of him. and a- the start? le,! man broke into a terrified run. he plant? d an? other a f?rot to the left of bim. The Hanger's wild leap fur safety threw Dickinaoa Into another paroxysm of incoherent delijrlit. "The damn brigand!" chuckled O'Shane. ? IM like to have nicked hia hat, but it would havi boea risky at this dhtanej with him run? ning." A little later, aa they -at at their Deal? Dickinson, who had been stuffing great -cctions <>f venison steak info hie mouth in f> eocc pied dlence, suddenly paused with half a potato poised on his fork in m d air. '"Snake," he demanded, "whatever was that hold up robber so darned -< t on arrestin' us for?" " Du n no," replied the other carelessly. "Be? cause we're Americans, I suppose, and he bates us anyhow." "Il ih. that ain't it," declared Dickinson. "He hates all hunters alike. That nectar hates every? thing: in- sits up nights an' bates: himself; but I'll tell you. He ain't (toin' to t> rn no ivory into no Burma Guvment. I hat duty palaver of hiaa was all hot air. he ain't never done no duty in his life. He want- to grab them teeth for him? self, an' he want- ua locked Mtfe out the way while he'- local in' |?oor ole M llvey's cache; that's what he want-. Vou kno v he", i: with Lu-Boin'a (rang, aa' he's tradin' with 'en I licit. Ain't that the right dope? Tell me now." "By George, Hick, you're right," exclaimed ? ?'Shane. "I never thought of that; matte:- of fact, I never thought ai*> :t it at all; hut that'll vhat the aeouadrel'a np to." "Yep, he's goin* to trade 'em over to Lu Bnin, an' the Guvment ain't goin' to amell no ivory. An' jx-or ole Mulvcy's paid for it with his life; an'hi- ole Mammy down at Mandalay, walt in' to co home lice. Snake, ain't it Hell'.'" In the gloomy alienee cvh eh followed CShano -at with knit linns in a whirl of indecision, Bod* denly he exhaled a great aigfa of relief with the coming of resolution, and rose to his feet. "Hick," ha announced, "Wilson doesn't knots Mulvey*a camp, and it'll take him a week to find it. Now we're going to hurry np and -/rah that ivory fer the old lady before he can get his claws oil It" \Ji LVEY*8 hide nway camp, a- he called if, was some twenty miles deeper in the fortst. ? ?"Shane wa- right when In- said it sou Id take a .v.-ck to find it. for Nature seemed to have design* cd it especially for a snug retreat, it was but* rounded by a dense rampart of giant male bam? boo, and to anj eh;.mi- passerby it would ircim that the bamboo jungle stretched on for a mile, -olid, almost impenetrable, and inhabited only by snakes and porcupines, therefore unprofitable ; but within, the matted dumps thinned out and left a regular fairy-story dell with shady tre.-- and a;> propriate uoaay banked stream all complete. Mul rey had discovered the plaei some time before aiid camped there undisturbed for many seasona. As the two partners approached the sjsjt with the silent tread and unconsciously instinctive can* tion bora of long years of experience In the jungles, they- sreresuddenly aorpriaed to bear the sound of voice-. With blank looks, they sank to the ground ami crept nrarily forward taking advant? age of all poaaintt cover, At la-t they arrived at a point where, screened by a network of root-, they could get a clear view of the camp. Several Bnrmana were moving almot, probing the gro ind with long .sticks, and among them, directing them to likely plate-, was I'anyer Wil? son. I!oth men swore aoftly. "Sow how in Hell did that swine And Iba plaee?" muttered O'Shane. "His half brother, the Devil, musta helped him.'' whispered Dickinson in reply. "Gee, what a hard gang! Look, there's I.ti-Hain. an' there*! that Manag Hya -harp, him that waa wanted for that murder in Ku-Gong"s opium joint. Tberc'l a tough bunch of dacoita nr yem; all got guns, t*?o." "Hist, lie tpiietI" warned OVbaae, "1 he'd cat oar throats ia a mintBte if they a*iacovered an." TP HEY lay still, watching. The Hanger cursed \ciioiuouslv and grew more and more en? raged as the protracted search revealed nothing. Dick'n-on. who was abaarbed in gluemiy atten? tion, and almo-t a- exedted a- if he were par to sc.- his partner rocking ia sib at merriment. Iici|>atiiig in the c-ue-t him-elf. presently tamed "What's eat in' vou'.'" he deiiianded indig? nantly. "Ilcre'te we two sweated up here t-> get tm saaCi for the oh- lady who's -ick. an' lo-t hi r -on. an' don't know it yet. an' we and a crowd of dam robU-rs. got ahead of us. If there's aaj joke in -ight in all that I'tl bf mighty glad to come in on it." tfSiiane essayed to speak, ami choked baeb Iba loud eackb- that ?--ca[?-d from his throat in freii/oil iipprehcti-ion. Win n he was calmer, he explainfd exult ingly. "I've got to laugh to look at friend Wi!-on*s face. l)ick: be*! the -i< ke-t man in the fhind win. Ib-'s got here alright somehow or other, but he'll never find old Mulvi v'? cache, he's fat : ''? ciinnintrest bklie hole von ever saw. But I'd like to know how he ever found this place at a!'." added with a frown.