Now we warn you again to go away.

We are ten to your four, and we are all armed with shotguns and pistols, and we have the drop on you." "Good for you, Dick, pile it on," whispered Tom.

Then he pulled Sam by the arm.

"Come on, let us appear from behind another rock--they'll think we are two more of the brothers or cousins!" "You won't dare to shoot us," blustered Merrick, but his voice had a trace of uncertainty in it.
"Won't we ?" answered Dick.

"There is a warning for you!" And raising the pistol he carried he sent a shot over the heads of the other party.
"They are shooting at us! We'll all be killed!" yelled Tad Sobber, who had come back during the conversation, and again he and Cuffer took to their heels.
"Mind the warning!" called out Dick, and dropped almost out of sight behind a rock.