Both of the boys looked around carefully, striving to find some clew which might prove that the men had been the robbers.
While they were looking the old man plied them with questions. He was surprised to learn of the part Bob had played in the first chase.
“I shouldn’t think yeou would want ter meet ’em again,” he laughed.
“That’s just where you are mistaken. I shall not be satisfied until those rascals are run down.”
“I have an idee they went to Stampton,” said the old man.
Bob shook his head.
“No; the police are watching out for them there. They have passed around Stampton and gone to some other place.”
“What place?”
“There is no telling. They might go to Dartinville or Burnham’s Ridge, or else strike out directly for the river.”
“Most likely they struck out for the river,” said Frank. “That is if the men were really the robbers. They might have been tramps.”