"No."
"Where are you bound?" went on the government official curiously.
"We are looking for my two brothers, Sam and Dick. They went over to the ranch yonder, and we have heard that they are being held prisoners."
CHAPTER XXIII
JAMES MONDAY TAKES A HAND
After that, there was nothing to do but to tell their story in detail, to which the government official listened with close attention. Then he asked them many questions.
"You are certainly in hard luck," said he when they had finished. "Beyond the slightest doubt, those men at the ranch are desperate characters, and I don't know but what I ought to summon help and arrest them on the spot."
"Den vy not do dot?" asked Hans. "Ve vill hellup, too."
"If those men are what I take them to be, I want to catch them red-handed,'' responded James Monday.
"What do you take them to be?" asked Tom.