“Do yeou know I have an idee I saw them chaps?”
“Tell us of it,” put in Bob, eagerly.
“It wuz last night. I have rheumatics, an’ can’t sleep very well. I got up about eleven o’clock ter rub some liniment on my leg, when I heard talking goin’ on back by the barn. I listened fer a minit, an’ then hollered out to fin’ out who wuz there.”
“Well, did you see them?”
“Yes. They didn’t answer nuthin’, but made tracks fer the road, and got out o’ sight jess ez quick ez they could.”
“Did you look at the place where they had been?”
“Yes, but I couldn’t see nuthin’.”
“Have you any objections to our looking?”
“O’ course not. Go ahead—or, hold up, I’ll show ye where I seed them.”
The old man led the way to the spot. A carriage shed hid it from the house.