“Not any more than I was, Frank. But it doesn’t seem possible that those men were friends, after the way they talked to one another. They were so—”
“Look!” suddenly exclaimed Frank. “Doesn’t that look as if they were friends?”
He pointed across Battery Park, where, walking rapidly toward the station of the elevated, were the same two men who had so nearly, apparently, come to blows in the aquarium. The men were walking along close together.
“They don’t seem very unfriendly now,” said Frank, bitterly.
Ned set off on the run toward them.
“Where are you going?” asked Frank.
“After those fellows! They shan’t get away with my watch and your money without a fight.”
“I’m with you!” cried Frank. “It’s as much your money as mine, though. I had it all together. Come on, we’ll see if we can catch ’em, but they’ve got the start of us.”
The two clever pickpockets had indeed an advantage. But Frank and Ned set off on the run, the younger lad crying loudly:
“Stop those fellows! Stop those men! They robbed us!”