“Well, I don’t see any need of staying here any longer,” said Ned at length. “It doesn’t seem as if the countryman or Bill would come back. If that man with the horse wants any pay let him call and collect. He didn’t treat us very nicely. As for Noddy, I guess he’s far enough off by now.”
“I wonder what he was doing out this way?” asked Bob.
“Yes, and lately Bill Berry is always with him,” commented Ned.
“They’re up to no good, you can be sure of that,” was Jerry’s opinion, in which the others shared.
Then, mounting their motor-cycles, the three boys made good speed home, meeting with no more fractious horses and puncturing no more tires.
[CHAPTER XIV.]
A FIRE AND A DISCOVERY.
“Fire! Fire! Fire!”
Loud shouts of this dreadful alarm, mingled with the ringing of bells, the tooting of whistles and the hurrying of many feet awoke Jerry late one night, three days after the encounter in the road with the countryman and his skittish horse.