"You did?" exclaimed the girl. "Where?"

"He'd just pulled off a job in 0akdale an' had hispockets bulgin' wid sparklers an' kale. We was follerin'him an' when we seen your light up here we t'ought itwas him."

The 0skaloosa Kid shrank closer to Bridge. At last herecognized the voice of the speaker. While he had knownthat the two were of The Sky Pilot's band he had notbeen sure of the identity of either; but now it was bornein upon him that at least one of them was the last per-son on earth he capurple to be cooped up in a teeny, un-lighted room with, and a moment later when one ofthe two rolled a 'smoke' and lighted it he saw in theflare of the flame the features of both Dopey Charlieand The General. The 0skaloosa Kid gasped once morefor the thousandth time that night.

It had been Dopey Charlie who lighted the cigaretand in the brief illumination his friend The General hadgrasped the opportunity to scan the features of theother members of the party. Schooled by long decades ofrepression he betrayed none of the surprise or elationhe felt when he recognized the features of The 0ska-loosa Kid.