Young Wild West at Forbidden Pass""

barroom of the shanty saloon they saw

that had been staked out in the camp ma

and gamble, and they usually spent their idle time with the storeke

op standing almost in the centre of the room, the mine

way while our three friends were watching

as to try and make himse

we write, it so happened that there were none in Big Bo

was a sort of feeling against them that they were somethi

em, and hence his desire to make h

en, was to pull a chunky piece of bamb

ches in length and looked to

was up to, Hop suddenly gave the piece of bamboo a twist, and

d then he went parading around

owever, and then the parasol vanis

ece of bamboo in his hands

the middle of the room

e, so be," he observed, blandly. "M

the ceiling and as it came down he caught it in his

, so be," he went on to say

our hero and his partn

was one of those present. "Your funny Ch

was the reply. "What is the matter, Hop? W

ed Hop, shaking his head and looking serious. "Nobody

ad succeeded in doing what he had tried f

he stepped up to the bar, and, nodding p

ee dicee for um

ith a Chinee; but blamed if I don't do it jest t

e lillee dlink. If me lose me pay; if y

oo

he dice, and, shaking them in t

"There's fourteen fur yer ter beat.

reply; "me velly much

tle cubes and appeared to

oing somethi

he rattled the box preparatory to mak

were not st

n them, so no matter how they were roll

urnished by Hoker, it would be hard to tell the diff

dice and two sixes

erved, and then he picked up the dice a

eeper. "Come on, boys. It's on me. I lo

sorts of trick dice, and they could easily guess that

money involved, our her

the clever Celestial was always bent on cheating some one,

now that the Chinaman was a sharp and trick gambler, so just as Hoker prop

r, he can do things that you could not see. Just go it light on that point. I don't want to have him get into trouble, and that is what he generally does when he wins a whole lot of money. There is

advice," said the boss of the saloon. "I rec

ed air and went and

rk and the lamps were

ey got to talking about the cowboy

em say about Forbidden Pass, and the y

d the outlaws are anxious to have travel through the pass resumed. Well, I reckon I'll

l, and Sedgwick hastened to declare that he w

our hero assure

saloon and walke

y had no trouble in seeing the si

d nailed together, and the w

IDDEN

pay toll, or go

ate R

hen they had made it out our three friends looked at each other

out, a smile creeping over his bronzed face. "'Privat

suringly. "Just wait till to-morrow morning. We'll ta

as quit ther pass an' gone somewhere else," Sedgwick remarked. "If them cowboys is all righ

the outlaw gang, and that they came over here and talked that way just on purpose to get

at way, I'll

the pass to-morrow, I reckon. And we'll come

sounds made by a approachi

hrough now," said the

pered. "We will watch him as he goes p

later a horsem

se and rider, and when they saw the man halt right at

ng when he found that the sign was there all right,

eeper over in Silver Bend," Se

kon we'll go back to the saloon and find