Use all your cunning. Above
all, be silent and lie low! Don't make a move, unless I tell you to do
so. Show your trust in me, Ash, as you've never shown it before. If you
don't, we'll be cheated out of our revenge!"
CHAPTER XXIII
RAFE AND JEFF MISCALCULATE
The two men whom the craven gambler had sighted were coming slowly
onward, their movements suggesting a good deal of care and watchfulness.
Nor did they come in a wholly straight line. That they did not suspect
the nearness of Jim Duff and his mad companion was plain at a glance.
"Burrow in the sand!" whispered the gambler in Ashby's ear. "Quiet! Be
ready, but don't do anything unless I give you the word."
"When you do give me the word," trembled the hotel man, "I'll kill 'em
both."
"Not unless we have to do so--remember!" ordered the gambler. "We want,
if possible, to take 'em alive."
Let us now go back to the two men whom Duff and Ashby were watching so
closely.
They were Rafe Bodson and Jeff Moore.
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