These Indians are bad Indians and the Police will punish the thieves.

A vigilance committee had been organized to punish the thieves.

McKee and I had gone out to punish the thieves, with what success the reader already knows.

As men heard the reports they became wildly excited and grimly determined to punish the thieves if caught.

"The flour'll last a day or two more," he said, "and it's something to know that if we're punishing ourselves, we're punishing the thieves also."