They told me things while I was in 'Frisco which I couldn't
believe, but I guess they're true. Judges don't disobey the orders
of their courts of appeal unless there is power back of them."

They proceeded to the attorney's office, but had not been there
long before Slapjack Simms burst in upon them.

"Hell to pay!" he panted. "McNamara's taking your dust out of the
bank."

"What's that?" they cried.

"I goes into the bank just now for an assay on some quartz
samples. The assayer is busy, and I walk back into his room, and
while I'm there in trots McNamara in a hurry. He don't see me, as
I'm inside the private office, and I overhear him tell them to get
his dust out of the vault quick."

"We've got to stop that," said Glenister. "If he takes ours, he'll
take the Swedes', too. Simms, you run up to the Pioneer Company
and tell them about it. If he gets that gold out of there, nobody
knows what'll become of it. Come on, Bill."

He snatched his hat and ran out of the room, followed by the
others. That the loose-jointed Slapjack did his work with
expedition was evidenced by the fact that the Swedes were close
upon their heels as the two entered the bank. Others had followed,
sensing something unusual, and the space within the doors filled
rapidly. At the disturbance the clerks suspended their work, the
barred doors of the safe-deposit vault clanged to, and the cashier