CHAPTER XIV.
TURNING THE TABLES.The miner’s words and act at once cleared a lane behind Buffalo Bill and himself between the crowds that had gathered around.
But the act did not appear to disturb the scout. If caught off his guard by the sudden drawing of his revolvers by Pistols, Buffalo Bill remained as cool as before, and said:
“Then you are willing to play a square game with me with revolvers, are you?”
“I is going ter play a game with you, yes, but there’s others in it besides, for I has something to say to you, Buffalo Bill.”
“Talk fast then, old man, for life’s short, you know.”
“Oh, it’ll be short enough to you, when I tells what I knows agin’ you.”
“What do you know?”
“I knows that you was ther cause o’ havin’ two innocent men strung up in Hangman’s Gulch this night. I onl
