They have even gone back to the old style of stock stealing. Up to
date it is estimated that they have run across the border into Mexico
several hundred head of stock. The ranchers are up in arms. The
Rangers have been called in to put the Border Bandits out of business.
This is the first one of the gang that we have captured. And, after
all, we didn't capture him. That was left for a bunch of plucky
young tenderfeet---two of them, to be exact.
"Furthermore, it is suspected that Dunk and some of the other bad men
of his crowd are in the pay of German agents in Mexico. The Germans
are trying to stir up trouble on this side of the line, and these
border ruffians are ready to do anything for the sake of easy money,
even at the expense of being traitors to their country. It is
believed that German money is finding its way into their pockets.
The hounds!" raged the Ranger.
"Surely these men have not resorted to force---committed murder or
anything of that sort?" interposed the professor.
"Not that we know of, though some of them did have a pitched battle
with a rancher over on the western border of the state. A few stopped
bullets, but so far as we know no one was killed. I am telling you
all this in confidence. There are a good many in this thing whose
names we do not know."
"You can make the prisoner confess, can you not?" asked Professor
Zepplin.
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