"Did she say to tell the Rovers?"
"Thet's it! Thet's it! I couldn't think o' thet name nohow, but now you hev struck it fust clip."
"The girls were trying to escape in the rowboat?"
"I reckon so, and the men in the launch were after 'em."
"Where did they go?"
"Out into the river, and thet's the last I see or heard o' 'em."
"Thank you," answered Dick, and seeing that Bill Daws was poor he gave the fellow two dollars, for which the watchman was profoundly grateful.
"It proves one thing," said Tom, when the brothers were coming away.
"We are on the right track."
"Right you are, Tom. I hope we stay on the trail until we run down our quarry."
Not long after this the entire party was on the steam launch once more. They took with them provisions enough to last a couple of days and also an extra cask of drinking water.