“It’s all right,” said Ralph to himself, as he started homewards. “Now to trace down Ike Slump and the other train robbers.”
CHAPTER VI
ZEPH
The young fireman reported at the roundhouse early in the morning, showing the telegram to Jim Forgan, but not until the foreman had got out of sight and hearing of the other men in the place.
“H’m!” commented Forgan laconically, “I don’t like this.”
“Indeed, Mr. Forgan?” smiled Ralph.
“I don’t, and that’s the truth of it—for two reasons.”