"Guess everything's all right, Harry," muttered the old detective.
"Looks that way," replied the boy.
"We've got very little more to do now."
"Only to get the nippers on Mason and his black pal."
"Where in thunder could they have gone?"
"Let's notify the authorities along the line of the railroad in both directions to keep a lookout for the pair."
Acting upon this suggestion, they quietly stole away, leaving the reunited and happy father and daughter talking over past events.
Proceeding to Swamp Angel, and learning that neither of the villains had yet put in an appearance there, they got the telegraph instrument operating, and flashed a warning message all along the line.
News reached them that neither Mason nor Johnson had made any attempt to get away on the cars yet.
In discussing this on their way back to Dalton's the old detective came to a wise conclusion, when he said: