"If you will wait till we can send for Dr. Wise," he said to the men, "he will assure you that we have every right to make the survey, as well as to build the road. Will you send some one, Dick?"
"I will go," said Kenneth Blaisdell, who was one of Percival's party.
"All right, Ken, go ahead," and the boy set off through the woods, Jack noticing at the same time that two of the men slipped away with the evident intention of waylaying him and preventing him from delivering the message to the doctor.
"I suspected as much," he thought. "Well, they don't know that young J.W. has already started. He will get through all right, for although he's little, he can be depended upon."
Then Jack gave Percival a wink and stepped back a little.
CHAPTER XX
GETTING AT THE BOTTOM OF THINGS
"What is it, Jack?" asked Percival as he joined Jack a short distance from the group of men now standing idly about.
"They have sent some one to intercept Blaisdell. I have already sent young Smith, or at least he has taken the hint and gone off himself. He will get there, but I think we had better send some one to help Ken."
"You are sure, Jack?"