This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xix. tom and the kid save A town the fobmeb makes A most stabtling discoveby. The next morning after Tom and the Kid had visited the dam and, later in the day, had disposed of all their mining claims for $200,000 cash, they set out again for Las Animas, fully prepared and equally determined to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xix. tom and the kid save A town the fobmeb makes A most stabtling discoveby. The next morning after Tom and the Kid had visited the dam and, later in the day, had disposed of all their mining claims for $200,000 cash, they set out again for Las Animas, fully prepared and equally determined to take up the trial of the murderers and pursue them to the end. In two days they reached Las Animas, hut were disappointed on learning that none of the men whom they were seeking had been there for some time. Dutch John had been there until within a few days, but he, also, had departed, and no one knew where he had gone. But in the course of the day enough was learned to convince Tom that the fugitives had been, up to within the past few days, sojourning at the Mission. "It's risky, Kid," declared Tom, "but I can see no help for it. We must go up there." And they went up to the Mission. Neither Tom Weston nor the Kid, as we have repeatedly seen, was to be deterred from entering upon any undertaking because there was danger in it. And now they set their faces toward the old Mission as fearlessly and unhesitatingly as though no danger was to be encountered there. "We will encounter danger, no matter where we go," said the Kid. "We will expect danger there, and, for this reason, we will be the better prepared for it. Perhaps we are less liable to get hurt there than elsewhere." Fortunately, this proved to be the case. Still, they were very guarded in their movements when, the following evening, after a long, hard day's ride, they entered the outskirts of the Mission. Riding up to within a few hundred yards of the t
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