"Certainly not, certainly not."
"I will bid you good day. I'll see you again when I may have something more to say."
With that McKay ran to his pony, and leaping into the saddle tore through the brush at a perilous pace. Tad observed what the others failed to see. He noted that the Ranger had returned in the direction from which he had come, rather than riding off toward the direction from which the shot had sounded. This struck Tad as a peculiar thing for a Texas Ranger to do.
"That's queer," muttered Butler.
"What is queer, Tad?" questioned the professor.
"The way he went."
"His leave taking was rather abrupt. But we know that is a way these Rangers have. Besides he thought there was trouble in the air," guessed the professor.
"Yes, but then why did he run away from it?" urged Butler.
"That's so, he did go the wrong way," wondered Ned.
"Maybe he's going to take a roundabout course," suggested Stacy.