“Very well, tell us where he is, and about those satchels, and we’ll make it as light for you as we can.”
“Is that a bargain?”
“It is.”
“All right,” said the man with the green shade over his eye. “I dropped them under the pump platform into the schoolhouse well.”
“Mr. Ward,” said Bob, quickly, to the marshal, “send for a well-cleaner, and see if he is telling the truth.”
“Say, Bob, the whole town is talking about you,” spoke Frank Haven.
“Are they?”
“Yes.”
“I should think they would!” cried Sammy Brown. “Why, you’ve done the biggest thing ever done in Fairview.”