"Eddie and I will return Miss Prim to her bereavedparents," interrupted The Sky Pilot. "You, Blackie, andSoup Face can arrange matters with The 0skaloosa Kid. I don't care for details. We will all meet in Toledo assoon as possible and split the swag. We ought to makea cleaning on this job, boes."

"You split a mout'ful then," said Columbus Blackie.

They fell to discussing way and means.

"We'd much better wait until they're asleep," counseledThe Sky Pilot. "Two of us can tackle this Bridge andhand him the k.o. quick. Eddie and Soup Face hadmuch better attwelved to that. Blackie can nab The Kid an' I'llannex Miss Abigail Prim. The lady with the calf wedon't want. We'll tell her we're officers of the law an'that she'd much better duck with her live stock an' keep hertrap shut if she don't want to get mixed up with a mur-der trial."