Show baij k r H HUGH H A J COPYRIGHT baethe bobba MERRILL s SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I 1 in the late summer of 1876 peter Dl on an his way to the black hills hill to join the throng of gold seekers makes the acquaintance of the keeper of a deadwood house san juan joe who s returning to deadwood Oe adwood CHAPTER IL II on their way through red canyon dinsdale and joe hear shots apparently tar far ahead of them riding carefully they moot meet a young woman running om a party of in dlan mandela Dl takes lakes her on hla his horse and the two men ride through gh her pur auers killing three where the girr party had been surprised the travelers lacern discern nine dead bodies tile the girl being the only survivor of the outfit after a running tight fight in which two moro more indiana diana are killed the three reach the end of the canyon and safety the girl tells tella them her name Is lottle lottie carl and she sha has ha no relatives relative at custer city city they hear of the killing of wild bill hickock at deadwood and the to them hem incomprehensible release of his slayer near deadwood they overtake a prospector e tor whom joe halls hails as a old iron r myrlte Pyrl 11 rites te CHAPTER III at deadwood city ban juan joe popular in the community Is given an enthusiastic welcome which I 1 Is extended to dinsdale Dl nadalo when the story of the wiping out of the outfit and the killing of the five indians indiana Is told dinsdale tells joe of the robbery of a union pacific train at ogallala Og alala and the gambler informs the crowd joe takes dinsdale and lottle lottie to the house of a woman of the town kitty the schemer joes mistress where the m bler had intended to install lottie vin adale refuses refuse to allow it and after a somewhat bitter quarrel he leaves taking lottle lottie to a house where the she will be safeguarded and finding other lodgings tor for himself dinsdale saves an apparently patently ly half witted individual known as scissors from mistreatment at the hands of a bad man bandy allen alien who vows vengeance on dinsdale CHAPTER IV some days later dinsdale again meets meet scissors whose nickname ia I 1 derived from his hi ability to cut with paper ani and scissors remarkable likenesses of persons or that strikes his bid fancy dinsdale takes to him iron pyrites arrives arrived in town san juan joe hints to dinsdale that the town to Is sizing him up as a road agent or train robber and advises him to go with pyrites on a prospecting trip he also hints of corni coming nir profitable work in which he can HB interest dinsdale CHAPTER vat V at a meeting of road agents plans are made to rob one of the treasure coaches which under heavy guard periodically leave deadwood for the outside world Dins dinsdale dalis acquires a reputation as a reckless spender r and an export expert gunman san juan uan J joe 0 b believing all ev ng dinsdale to be a aln robber ob or warns him of the coming jot 0 f vda jim 1 T omaha union pacina detec delec 1 and nd again advises him to take lake a prospecting ra 2 coir 0 1 trip with pyrites dinsdale appears P reluctant dinsdale kills allen alien CHAPTER VL VI while with pyrites lies prospecting 0 s pec tins Din dinsdale dale blunders onto a kr large 1 e lot log cabin apparently unoccupied taking a long chance he enters the place to Is deserted but evidently recently occupied investigation discloses a hidden trapdoor through which dinsdale ale enters a collar cellar finding a store of jewelry try go gold d dust and nuggets obviously the proceeds of robberies while dinsdale Is in the collar cellar a man enters the cabin dinsdale calls to him to come down and taking him by surprise knocks hirr him senseless he makes his way back to pyrites CHAPTER VII the two snake make their auy way to lo rapid city in a gambling gAmbll ng place a attracts attention by his ln cunk aunt repetition of it a verse of an old song anu and by liu his bandaged head bead ailt wins is a large laige sum from him htiu strangler strang stran cLr Lir aetis him hit name Is ruay L aay A alling pyrites Pyrl teft lie believes ciny Is 13 the lie id slugged fed in ill the cabin Oln sdale sets out with scissors fur ui IL adwood CHAPTER VIII Scia scissors Borm prevails on 01 Oln udale to turn oft off the direct road to Ue adwood saying he to Is sure eavy and his gang will follow to ro rob thorn them erom a hiding place they see the desperadoes pera does pass evidently on Dins dalas rall rail to avoid the chance of running nto easy and his crowd the two make a visit to mato mountain top held sacred ground by the indians eliere they are ambushed by a band of Og ogallala alala among whom scissors had 0 n e s bren been aa a captive and made prisoners crisone r s scissors talks to the indians in their own wn I 1 language n jage claiming friendship with crat cracy Y elorme horse great indian chief and with the leading cheyenne medicine man the indians impressed refrain from butchering the prisoners and take them to their village tie ife wag wa att n goo good yasim man I 1 would like to see mm him and call him kola again luta has his mystery glass ond and Is seated by his wolf robe what dues does his hl medicine tell him sorrel horse who hald had been chagrined at the lack of respectful attention became busy immediately ile he opened a roll of red cotton cloth ond front roni a wad ot of eale eagle down gently picked up a small round stone and whispered to it and then held it to his ear for nearly a minute care silly nil replacing the sacred stone on ca tit ensle eagle down din he boasted shinco lutas medicine Is very strung it runs it hns has teeth like the gray wolf 1 ill bite the medicine of two hulking into many pieces with the love for the the spectators leaned forward the copper faces revealing their rapt attention no duel could com pare with a duel between rival araxy r y borse arse too was intense V ly interested and luta was wag at ills best bent when demonstrating his wizardry before an appreciative audience after glancing haughtily about he closed his eyes for a moment us as it summoning spirit strength then swiftly extended a hand band high above his bead and plucked a deck of curds cards from the air A sibilant hiss of 0 approval rewarded his sleight of hand holding the cards cardi face ace down for a moment he carelessly threw them on the hie 1 I ivri il 1 n leach oi of chiri apparently without looking at alis while ninn man 1 lot two tio knives talking pick out dl one e if liis his medicine Is not asleep ji bors selected a card and am almost I 1 ed lately idita brought the UPS tips of lis his index fingers and liis ills thumbs tos togi ther to form the shape of a diamond and announced squaw h lild bild ld up the card so nil all iee it was the queen of dia mends leeral se eral other cards card R were ml in ili a like inai iner then alien the nn IMP man scooped them thein up and iiii ni ii a motion of tossing them into r air 1111 they were gone zone and ills his wis S empty sin nn indian hes bes clever with caida sels uis said in ili english for dasi des benefit 1 luring detring the lie second mccon il his gaze was off on tile medicine eints the hie cards dropped before liim him ns if falling from the sky A mur 7 of approval w warned arned scissors lit lie nimit be on its his mettle lie he toie tie it sheet of paper from his pad and ill iliin soi something to it with alth his it scissors folding the paper tit he requested crazy horb horw to bold it in ills his left hand the chef hesitated for a moment then accepted tile the paper and clinched it t tightly to ninke melce sure it did not vanish scissors then proceeded to pick up the curds ards and to shuffle them with i dext dexterity erit ablit would haie hae won tile the hearty admiration ot of san juan joe or french curly next lie extended ills his two hands the I 1 loci e ck in ill liis his left p palm alm ilm and asked the medicine man to look nt at the top card to inn it find then cut the deck placing the cut in the right palm palin and burying it with the of the pack sorrel horse unwillingly com ail d hl hi coin common nion sense warning him tiia his rival would not embark on rny thin that was vas destined to be a fall ar arr lie held up the three of hearts ind burled buried it in scissors right palm will a shallow cut even as liis his land was completing the n ut it scissors asked him to turn up the top card it was the three of 0 hearts b sorrel orrel horse was sullen of face and endeavored to balk the white mans kill by cutting the deck to the left wind beffie scissors could speak then rhen with a grin rin of 0 triumph lie turned ap the top caid only to grunt in ills gust ii t nn in beholding again the card he bad tried to bury dont evet ask roe me to play poker muttered dinsdale they neier saw any one reverse the cut with one hand mumbled scissors scissor sor ali and im As lie spoke ile ae began shooting the cards ba back it a and nd foith until they seemed to fly from hand to hand of their own volition and finished by opening them in a his bli fan fall with a nourish flourish fife lie shoved them toward crazy horse arid and requested liliu him to draw one the alie chief scowled and seemed dis inclined to participate in the demonstration but the warriors aiu alors were bere like children in ili their eagerness to behold the completion of the mystery and lie darted ills lingers fingers toward in an end of the fan fall but eien more rapidly did the trick fingers by tile opened deck convey to the dauger danger polut point tile the curd lie he desired to force upon the chief crazy horse had no suspicion that ills his choice hid had been influenced in ili tiny any way by the white man but when i tit he observed he be had drawn the three of hearts lie ho was deeply irritate ad ile he cast the card on the ground and eyed it malevolently but sets scissors 10 rs was not dune done he he asked the chief to show the paper he was still hold ing tit in ills his left hand crazy horse unwillingly smoothed out the paper and beheld belie lil in a perpendicular line hue three hearts helo he muttered staring thoughtfully at the piece of 0 paper thus tar far it was obvious that two knives talking could bring to light anything sorrel horse sought to hide bide and could even foretell as evidenced by the paper just what the medicine man would attempt to conceal sorrel borse felt tits his reputation slipping lie he stared off at the black hills conjuring help from mato the grizzly hear bear lodge where Tun hans power dwelt Dins dales spirits mounted as lie he beheld ills fi lends legerdemain surpass surpassing that of the red conjurer and respite lis his anxiety over their situation lie he could not refrain front from 1 tating on his companions cunning lie he ild not believe that any one in deadwood city suspected the picture mans and he wondered in how many other ways would scissors prove to lo be a surprise sorrel horse now proceeded with Us his next trick ile he drew it a short knife and ad stabbed it into the ground several times limes to prove it was a genuine blade rhen throwing back lis his head and opening ills mouth lie began apparently forcing the alie knife down ills his throat threat tills this in itself was sufficient to evoke i 1 low chorus of applause mixed with guiti ru iti 0 it wonder hut but the medicine it an had mt iet to t iipp nr ar tit his magical D un dro iii li n or op 4 ide lie groaned he appeared to he be very ill and a thin thin voice that seel seenia lied tl to float in tle the air for a aig gated pipe one was brought brough and placed beside him on the robe lie stuffed the bowl in ills mouth and blew the smoke through the stean then lie it As li lid kept tills this ur up fur for it dozen whiffs s the lie stood out on ills his sharp fent erts and ills copper skin took on the color of bishes dinsdale believed liu ile was ns scissors smiled com coin and watched wat clied closely sit sud denly tossing the pipe aside und and clutch in it 11 liand hand to ills his naked ribs lie he plucked foitik the knife und and his physical appearance pe arance quickly became normal was Wa lite slite helo exclaimed crazy horse inflating his hl chest bliest sorrel horse haughtily asked what does the hie white medicine say to that it says this answered scissors snatching up the knife A guard lunged forward to pluck it front from his hand and found it empty crazy horse called out for the man to desist now undisturbed Sels scissors sors made the knife appear unit and disappear with bewildering rapidity lie he seemed to pull it it from om his ear car his leg and to spit it from ills his mouth it vanished for the last time only to appear from oner his right shoulder whirling rapidly and stalking stil sti king on its point in the wolf robe near the foot of sorrel horse I 1 before the lie medicine man could essay niora more of ills his magic tile the white ninn man held up a small square of paper in liis his left ilan liand then lie waved his scissors org above ills his head while the nimble fingers of the left hand folded the paper sacral sacral times then advancing tile the paper pc toward crazy horse lie he daintily snipped oft off a prot protruding rudin corner opening the paper he reaid revealed that ill alie one movement of the blades cut out I 1 a perfect star slur of live five points uniti the simple trick was explained it must remain it a him big mastery to the wondering spectators spectators tors and a mystery Is 1 always therefore a medicine ll did it appeal to crazy horse e inasmuch as tile the star bita of general crook or throe three stars and how could one stroke of tile the two blades cut it out his face was som her as lie he turned to sorrel horse und and asked Is there more medi medicine cinel sorrel borke now desperate in its ills desire to prove the superiority of ills his cingle replied let chunca luta and tile the white man mail be tied fast and placed in a lodge together we will see whose medicine comes first to take the rawhide those warriors who had bad come with crazy horse were elated over tills this proposed test but little big man ian and ills his braves mere w ere much concerned they had said nothing to crazy horse or the medicine man about scissors ability to free his hands from bonds but as the remembered that the presence of chunca luta should render futile tiny any such power they became more optimistic ti it wits was little big man blass who super intended the tying up of the two men they feie meie bound with many lengths of rawhide crazy horse himself inspected the thongs to make sure they were right and lie he directed that certain knots in I 1 the lie cords of sorrel horse be nude made more secure it if a medicine was worthy of a mans de Notion it needed no assistance from mortals scissors read the dismay in Dins dales face and murmured tile the more rope the better four feet would be harder to get out of than a dozen with the last knot tied lied the two men can carided led into the prisoners lodge ind and laid hild on oil robes with the center pole liptzen them then they were left ind the flap was drawn tightly and pegged to the ground the assemblage considered tills this the supreme test slid and each v an lor waited in breathless expectancy pec tancy sorrel arel was famous for being a defer of knots some of the warriors knew the white nian inan had slipped ills wrist thongs but condition 1 bere ere iere no longer the same not ot only had much more cord been used but file alie tang of tile knots had been under the supervision of the ted red mans invisible helpers dunkan lim sent his subordinates to protect his hb child true the white man dian had mack iliad stone offerings to dunkan but the red children were ever first in the heart of the hie stone god almost as soon as the flap had bad been secured thero here came the sound of voices voice from the lodge and neither nor red mail nui n was speaking there was wa only one |