Young Wild West at Forbidden Pass""

ged along through the big cave to a place that

the front was sufficient for our hero to see that

he was to be taken outside and put in the hole until t

ery soon, however, for the pa

ural hollow, with steep walls of ro

ut he knew it could not be, for they

ening, or hole, as it might be c

ery steep, and others looked

he was taken from, was a stout post

d in an upright position, with his back

hly. "I reckon you'll stay there just as

ope you won't want me to stay here very l

aughed, while others

actly suit them. He

struggle to capture the brave boy and his sweetheart,

kon yer found out your mistake all right. We seen yer when yer went through, an' we jest got ready fur yer when yer come back. Yer cou

game, that isn't going to count for much. I've been in just such fixes as this,

many hours older. Thought it was fine fun ter make me dance

never met me before

lk, boys! He acts jest as though he ain't no pr

of the outlaws, as he looked at the helpless boy and nodded. "But there's

nswered, thinking it good policy to keep in conversation with them, as the more t

ha,

nivel l

s very sure that it was a

d established their quarters in the cave no doubt

use in waitin' fur Cap ter come. He won't be here till some time after dinner, he said when he went away last night. He's tryin' ter git ther stage coach ter run through ther pass ag'in, an' if it does we'll le

ake what they've got on 'em, an' you kin put in ther box inside, so ther boss kin take charge of it. I know they both must have had a fe

ur ther pair of 'em. Poor fellers! They never knowed what struck 'em, fur ther galoots what fired them shots aimed

goes. But it's a shame that they

e work assigned him, as did

nto the cave, leaving Wil

n a box, over which some skins had

evidently thinking that there was no dang

e same, for those left to guard her could

er see you in such a fix as this. What did yer want ter come t

he toll, and I will do it when the proper t

Why, have yer got

I think I can p

your mon

outlaw band became i

etta, coolly. "You don't suppose it is anywhere near here, do you? I wo

fur us, I reckon," and the man grinned, as though he thought he had got o

t when the time co

t yer tel

ow I am going to pay it. But I a

fter thinking a minute or two. "Well, it will depend on what ther captain says about you gittin' aw

Wild West gets out of here. He won't b

alive. I've swore that I'll kill him; an' ther boss of our gang wouldn't think of lettin' him live, nohow. Jest make up your mind that ther

is th

d at him with

something wonderful, coming fro

ter in the bosom of her dress, which ha

ways carried t

e she always carried at her belt, but

ild West on her sixteenth birthday, and se

s talking to her she was thinking

hile, for she had been listening when the men were talking about Cap Roche, and she had not failed to

nce she had been carefully studying the c

she did it the better it woul

that she woul

she asked, as Snivel was abou

"I'll go an' fetch yer on

eutenant of the band in the cave just

ed his back to go and fetch the water Ariett

at led out to the pass when one of th