They waited for several minutes, but the girls did not appear.
"Supposing I take to one road and you to the other?" said Dick. "If you see them, whistle."
"What about the third road?" And Tom grinned.
"We'll leave that for the present."
Off they set, and as ill-luck would have it took the two roads the girls had not traveled. Each went fully a mile before he thought of coming back.
"Well, what luck?" asked Dick, as he rode up.
"Nothing doing, Dick."
"Ditto."
"Then they must have taken to the third road."
"That's it,—unless they rode faster than we did."