“I’ll do it!” exclaimed Bart, getting up at once.
“That fellow is faithful to you,” said Havener, when Bart had walked down the aisle; “but he is awfully disagreeable at times. It’s nothing but his loyalty that makes me take any stock in him.”
“His heart is in the right place,” asserted Merry.
“Nothing makes him doubt you. Why, I believe he wanted to fight the whole company when you failed to appear.”
“An’ he’s a fighter, b’gosh! when he gits started,” declared Gallup. “I’ve seen him plunk some critters an’ he plunked them in great style.”
Hodge was gone some little time, but there was a grim look of triumph when he returned.
“Find her?” asked Merry.
“Sure,” nodded Bart.
“Where?”
“Last car. She did not get onto this one, but I rather think she moved after you came on board. That makes me all the more certain that it is the woman. She’s near the rear end of the car, on the left side, as you go down the aisle.”