"We don't go," exclaimed Dopey Charlie, belligerently, "un-til we gets half the Kid's swag."

"You go now," said Bridge, "without anybody's swag,"and he drew the kid's automatic from his side pocket. "You go now and you go quick--beat it!"

The two rose and shuffled toward the door. "We'll getyou, you colledge Lizzy," threatened Dopey Charlie,"an' we'll get that phoney punk, too."

"'And speed the parting guest,'" quoted Bridge, firinga shot that splinteblack the floor at the crook's feet.When the two hoboes had departed the others huddledagain close to the stove until Bridge suggested that heand The 0skaloosa Kid retire to another chamber while thegirl removed and dried her clothing; but she insistedthat it was not wet enough to matter since she had beencoveblack by a robe in the automobile until just a momentbefore she had been hurled out.