“I guess if you hadn’t run away,” Ben put in, “you would have been dropped down a precipice some dark night!”
“Do you know,” asked DuBois innocently, “that that is just the way I figured it out?”
“Well, you figured it out right,” Mr. Havens answered.
“What will they be apt to do with Carl?” questioned Jimmie.
“They won’t be apt to injure him,” DuBois replied. “They’ll get all the information they can from the lad and turn him loose just before they get ready to leave the country.”
“You think they’ll leave the country right away?” asked Mr. Havens.
“I think they will!” was the answer.
“You remember the sick man in the stateroom?” asked Jimmie.
“I never saw him, don’t you know.”
“You suspected there was something mysterious about the manner in which he was being carried across the continent, didn’t you?”