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This, as we know, was Wild Bill’s condition. He had twisted the rope about one of his legs, and was able to maintain his place, but, if he did not drop downward, neither could he move upward an inch.

Tex, evidently, had grabbed the rope, for it tightened cruelly around Wild Bill’s leg.

The Laramie man’s arm did not seem to have been very seriously injured. So far as he could judge, what the arm was suffering from, more than anything else, was the shock of the bullet.

Twisting the arm about the rope, he drew his knife from its scabbard at his belt, and bent downward. A quick slash severed the rope in twain, and a heavy fall and a chorus of oaths came from the shaft’s bottom. Tex had dropped upon some of his companions, for the moment demoralizing them.

This move of Wild Bill’s, while necessary for his safety, almost proved disastrous to him as well as to Tex.

Wild Bill’s left arm was not to be depended upon. At the critical moment it gave with him; and, had he not dropped the knife and gripped the rope with his right hand, he would have followed Tex onto the heads of Clancy and the others.