“Use it, then, if you see anybody,” replied Wade. The man, who was a clerk in the store, looked up and down the street, and then fired his pistol twice. “Very likely there are two more of them; and we had better get into the store, or we may be shot,” said the clerk. “All right; but we will drag these fellows in with us,” replied Wade. “We had better lose no time, for a bullet may make an end of us at any minute.” “It won’t take us any longer if we make sure of these men,” added Wade, as he dragged the first one that had fallen into the store. The clerk took hold of the other, but he seemed to lack the strength to move him; and Wade had to help him. “Now shut the door,” continued the active youth, suiting the action to the word. “Can you fasten it?” “I suppose the rascals have spoiled the lock,” replied the clerk. But Wade found the key on the floor. The burglars appeared to have turned it with their nippers, and then pushed it out on the floor, using false keys to open the door. When he had turned the key, he saw to his astonishment that there were two great bolts on the door, besides the lock. These could not have been shoved back without help from the inside. Wade had no time to consider this circumstance, though it was suggested to him; for it occurred to him just at that moment, that the goods taken from the store by the first man he had “sat down upon” were still in the street, and he had forgotten to take them in. He carefully opened the door, and, seeing that no one was near, he stepped out. He was just picking up the bundle when another pistol was discharged. He felt something in his arm, but it was so slight that he did not think it could be the bullet from the pistol. It did not disable him, and he made haste to drag the heavy bundle into the store. Then he locked and double-bolted the door. As he looked over the fastenings, he did not believe that any robbers could get through that door. By this time Wade was pretty well cooled off after the violent excitement of the affair. He examined the door very carefully by the aid of the lantern he had taken from the burglar’s belt. Certainly there was no break in the door by which any one on the outside could have moved those two heavy bolts. Near the door was a box of carpenter’s tools. It contained augers, chisels, a mallet, and some other implements. While he was examining the door and its surroundings, he heard the robbers moving, and went to them to inquire into their condition. To his surprise he found that the cords of one of them were partly loosed. The clerk was near him, and no one else could have unfastened them. Wade made haste to secure him again; and he did it in a more thorough manner than before. Then he looked over the other one; but his bonds did not seem to have been tampered with. He saw a revolver sticking out of the pocket of the man, and he took possession of the toy.