"It's a pity he wasn't drowned in the lake."
"I agree with you. But he isn't dead, and we'll have to keep out of sight for the rest of the trip."
"Humph! I am not afraid of him!" said the bully, for, as old readers know, Dan had never been anything else.
"That may be, but if he sees us he may—ahem—make much trouble for me."
"On account of our doings in Colorado? What can he prove? Nothing."
"Perhaps he can. Besides, Dan, you must remember that the officers of
New York State are still after me."
"Yes, I haven't forgotten that."
"I wish now that I had put on that false wig and beard before we left Detroit," went on Arnold Baxter. "But I hated to put them on before it was absolutely necessary—the weather is so warm."
"Can you put them on now?"
"Hardly, since all on board know my real looks. I will have to keep out of Rover's sight."