"I think I saw Crabtree!"
"You did! Where? Why didn't you collar him?"
"I didn't get the chance," returned the youngest Rover, answering the last question first. "It was on the corner below here. I was standing in a doorway, watching up and down, when I saw a tall man come along slowly. He halted at the corner and presently another man came out of the side street and touched him on the arm. The second man wore a heavy beard and a slouch hat and colored eyeglasses, but I am almost sure it was Josiah Crabtree."
"Why didn't you go up and make sure? You could have pulled the beard from his face—if it was false."
"Just what I thought. But I decided that first I would listen to what the two men had to say. When I got closer to the pair I made another discovery.
"What was that."
"The first man had a pointed chin and the heaviest pair of eyebrows I ever saw."
"What!" ejaculated Dick, and his mind ran back to the jail at Plankville, and to what had been said about the man who had visited Josiah Crabtree. And then he thought of the mysterious automobile and its driver.
"Yes, I know what you think, Dick—and I think the same—that that man was the one who aided Crabtree to escape from jail," said Sam.
"What did the men say, Sam?"