Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail; Or, The Fugitive Professor

he cowboys keep them in sight. This was annoying, and Merry formed

p, "can cover the ground between here and McGurvin's four ti

demanded. "We'll all get

d the red mustache should take it into his

too late. Possibl

can lope along and get there in time to help Cla

iwell. We'll c

ir flight over a course so carefully covered the night before. Again, as once before, the professor's claim was at stake, and

ant spot, irrigated by McGurvin's well, came i

ch from the rear. There are only two of us, you know, and we wil

our machines in the brush somewhere, and move up on t

s crept cautiously forward under the screen of McGurvin's corral. Corn was growing in

catching a glimpse of McGurvin's hitching p

here already," Merry whi

ing from?" returned Clanc

l fin

wenty feet from him, and there comfortably seated, was a florid, flashily dressed, red-mustached person. Opposite him, in another chair, was not less a personage than Professor Phineas

dy the stage was set and the play for the professor's claim was being made. Clancy gripped his chum tensely b

s a remarkable country, most remarkable. Over in the Picket Post Mountains, if you please, I have seen mis

McGurvin, but such is the fact. This will have to be straightened out, or the responsibility will rest heavily upon you. Now, speaking personal, I'd hate a heap to s

shonest, gentlemen. I assure you that I want only to do what's right. The claim I located was discove

ke. How could you know that, in the years that followed your nephew's discovery, the claim was l

ar ago," asserted

vin has done the assessment work, so it belonged to him

essor sh

d to do any wro

You've had a lot of trouble in this matter, and McGurvin is willing to give you a hundred dollars for that. You wil

r do," said McGurvin, i

Mac," said one o

ubled with enlargement of the heart, I reckon, someday,

see the perfesser git his rights. I was totin' his stuff ter town, an' I'm

ess to me. If you insist, I will accept the hundred dollars, and sign this quit claim. All I want is to do what is right. Otium oum

paper and a fountai

, but you are doing your best to make amends." He got up and handed the pen to the professor, and t

it in his hand, eying it hungrily. The professor, hunting for a place on

words of that gang of tricksters in such a matter. But he was child, so far as business affairs were concerned

bold move was necessary. If Heppner ever got that signed quitcla

he group of men in the shade of the house, and, before the astounded plotters could interfere, he h

jumping forward savagely. "Wh

ted Merry with flaming eyes and twitching, an

sped, lifting a ha

ent, jumped to place him

, "and you're trying to swindle the prof

ur of the plotters began clo