The Spider's lips moved. The other leaned closer. Dimly The Spider
realized that this was the Law that questioned him. Even at the last
moment his old enemy had come to hunt him out. The Spider's beady
black eyes suddenly brightened. With a last vicious effort he raised
his head and spat in the officer's face.
The doctor stepped quickly forward. The Spider lay staring at the
ceiling, his sightless eyes dulled by the black shadow of eternal night.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
GETTING ACQUAINTED
It was Pony Baxter who gave the names of the dead gunmen to the police,
confirming the records of White-Eye, Pino, Longtree, and Jim
Ewell--known as The Spider. The identity of the fourth man, he of the
deformed shoulder and shriveled arm, was unknown to Baxter. The police
had no record of him under any alias, and he would have been entered on
their report of findings as "unknown," had not the faro-dealer and the
lookout both asserted that The Spider had called him Gary--in fact had
singled him out unmistakenly, asking him what be had to do with the
quarrel, which evidently concerned but three of the four men whom The
Spider had killed.
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