As for Hinkee Dee, while he was plainly impressed, he did not become at all friendly. Instead of being sarcastic, he was just plain mean and insulting.
“Well, we’ll get him yet,” declared Jerry. “He can’t hold off forever.”
“I wonder what makes him this way?” asked Bob. “Is he afraid we’ll discover the cattle thieves?”
“Looks that way,” replied Ned. “I guess he wants to solve the mystery himself. But he’d better get busy.”
“He hasn’t done anything that I can see—except talk,” put in Jerry.
“No,” agreed Ned. “It’s queer. But we haven’t done much ourselves. I say! let’s get busy, now we’ve had our fun in the airship.”
“All right,” assented Jerry. “We’ll take a trip to-morrow over to the place where we ran up against a stone wall last time.”
“In the airship?” asked Bob.
“No. Not this time. The ponies will do.”