“Yes, what is it? Keeps winking and blinking like a——”
“Sh! some one is signaling. H’m! regular dots and dashes, that’s what they are. H’m! do you know the code?”
“Yes, a little bit. We used to practise it——”
“Watch ’em. H’m! I’ve got some of it. It’s a regular message to——”
The two prowlers advanced as close as they dared and watched the signals, muttering to each other as one word and another was flashed out.
“What do you make it, Pete? ’Keep away from something on account of danger.’ Is that it?”
“Yes, ’keep away from bank,’ that’s it.”
“Keep away from the bank? What bank? The river or the ravine?”
“No, stupid! The bank in the town. The one that was robbed. Are you so stupid you can’t put two and two together? That’s Sheldon’s room where the lights came from. He was warning his father to keep away from the bank on account of danger. Don’t you see? He is not the fine honorable fellow he makes himself out to be.”
“H’m! that gives us another hold on him. If he puts on any airs with us now we’ll spit upon him.”