The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1919-06-19

KEY 10 tne location OF q treasure DuGleu
years before on the Gulf of Mexico Dick
and Polly Van Brunt have one piece and
Scarface another. He kills Polly's father,
gets the flag and starts after the other
flags and the treasure. Dick and Polly
are Joined by other lag-holders and a
running battle toward the Gulf of Mex
leo begins. Scarface traps his foes in a
cabin mined with dynamite, and when
they refuse to surrender, light the fuse
and rides away.
Locked in the shack, Dick, Teel and
the two deputies awaited the certain
death that would come to them when
the dynamite the outlaws had planted
beneath the shack exploded. Back in
the brush, SCarface waited for the
men to surrender and give up the
pieces of the Rivcn Flag.
The ten seconds Scarface gave them
long had passed-Dick counted them.
He took out his watch and exclaimed
to the others:
"By heavens! 1t was only bluff
after ALL"
From all sides deep breaths of
relief greeted the remark. 1t Is one
thing to die in The open and in the
midst Of battle; quite another to be
coopcd up behind the barrcaded
doors of shack and be compelled to
stand in idlcness while the spark
Crawls along n fuse that is supposed
to end in a charge Of dynamite that
will blow all within range of its blast
into smitherccnS. And though Teel
and the two deputies were brave men,
the last half minute had told heavily
upon their nerves Now with the dam
ger of the dynamite passed they were
once more eager to do battle face to
face with the ScOundrels who had
trapped them.
'What shall we do?" growled Tecl
"For one l am tired of being shut in
here, like rats in cage. l don't mind
taking chance with them hand to
hand, but this being shut up is get
ting monOtonouS."
Same here" responded the two
deputies in one voice.
Approaching a window cautiously
and peering out into the brush that
concealed their foes. Dick carefully
surveyed the scene.
There are four of them and four
Of u.s. Let us rush them and take
Chances" he said, and drawing pis-
tolls the four threw their weight
against the door.
Meanwhile Polly at the head of a
dozen hastily gathered deputies was
rapidly approaching the scene. Guild
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Scarface and his gang fired futile vol
legs through the shack in which Dick
and his companions We're imprisoned
the officers stole upon the unsuspect-
ing outlaws as panthers stalk their
prey Arriving at Il bend in the trail
they halted, while Polly stealing a
short distance ahead saw enough Of
what wns transpiring to tell her all.
Turning she fastened back to her
waiting companions.
"Scarfacc and his pals are lying in
the brush around that hut yondpr, and
If we rush them we can take them by
surprise" she announced us she came
up to them. They nodded, drawing
their weapons.
Come on, boys. Wen pot the whole
kaboodle Of them at one fell swoop,"
she announced. and with their guns
held in readiness they went racing up
the trail in the direction of the un-
suSpectng gang.
Scarface, as the fuse went out, real
tzcd his bluff had been called and he
had lost and cursed his luck as he
began 10 think out Il new scheme for
getting the pieces of hng. His
thoughts, however, were soon inter-
rupted by cries Of alarm from Screw
eye, as the sheriff'S posse, dozen
strong and led by Polly, came in sight
down the trail. The outlaws had no
relish for n fight against such odds,
and, hurrying to their horses, rode
away without being seen.
A moment later the posse dis
mounted in the clearing. Just as the
door was burst open Dick and his
friends rushed out. 1t was surprise
congratulations, they all started for
Tccl's cabin.
The following morning, Scarface and
his gang took possession of the Ran
some cottage, hoping in the absence
of Dick TO obtain clues to other own
ers Of sections of the Riven Flag. 1t
was this same morning that Joseph
Stebbins, formerly Of Massachusetts,
having read Dicks notice in the
papers, came to the cottage to give
him his piece of flag and otherwise
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