Fenn glanced quickly up and saw, standing before him, the man with the sinister face—the man who had pursued him at the elevator fire. Beside him was a man with a peculiar cast in one eye, and Fenn knew he was the fellow who had listened to the conversation of the chums in the railroad car.
CHAPTER XXV
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
Along the trail, which they had thus suddenly come upon, fairly ran Frank, Ned and Bart. Now that they were sure Fenn was ahead of them, though they could not tell how long since he had passed that way, they were anxious to find their chum as soon as possible.
“It looks as if Fenn was chasing the Chinese and the white man, instead of them being after him,” suggested Ned.
“Unless they are leading him with a rope,” remarked Frank. “In that case he would be marching behind.”
“Well, I’ll bet they’d have a fine time making Fenn march along with a rope on him,” said Bart. “He’d lie down and make ’em drag him. That would be Fenn’s way.”
“Unless he’s too sick to make any resistance,” replied Frank, who seemed to take a gloomy view of it.