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"Well," he said, "I guess I got so for you at last There's a bo on the wire that says he's just seen your man down near Shawnee He wants to know if you'll split the reith hian yawned and stretched

"I suppose," he said, ironically, "that if I go down there I'll find he's corraled a nigger," and he looked sorrowfully at the three speciuy says he knows Byrne well, an' that he's got it in for him Shall I tell him you'll be down--and split the reward?"

"Tell hian, and after the chief had trans up the receiver: "Where is this here Shawnee, anyhow?"

"I'll send a couple ofwith you It isn't far across the line, an' there won't be no trouble in getting back without nobody knowin' anything about it--if you get hian, his visions of five hundred already dwindled to a possible one

It was but a little past one o'clock that a touring car rolled south out of Kansas City with Detective Sergeant Flannagan in the front seat with the driver and two burly representatives of Missouri law in the back