Infuriatedly, he exerted
his fine strength, and the tide turned. Panting and snarling, the big
woman was battered down. He flung her heavily to the ground and then
leaped back to pick up his revolver, expecting a renewal of the attack.
For the first time he was conscious of intense pain in his left leg. The
woman made a violent effort to rise, and then fell back, groaning and
cursing.
"You've done it! You've got me!" she yelled. "My leg's broke!" Then she
shrieked for Davy and Bill and Sam, raining curses upon the law and upon
the traitor who had been their undoing.
Bonner, his own leg wobbling and covered with blood, tried to quiet her,
but without success. He saw that she was utterly helpless, her leg
twisted under her heavy body. Her screams of pain as he turned her over
proved conclusively that she was not shamming. Her hip was dislocated.
The young man had sense enough left to return to Davy before venturing
into the cave where Miss Gray was doubtless in a dead faint. The man was
breathing, but still unconscious from the blow on the head. Bonner
quickly tied his hands and feet, guarding against emergencies in case
of his own incapacitation as the result of the bullet wound in his leg;
then he hobbled off with the lantern past the groaning Amazon in quest
of Rosalie Gray. It did not occur to him until afterward that single
handed he had overcome a most desperate band of criminals, so simply had
it all worked out up to the time of the encounter with the woman.
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