“Shut Billy off, too. And then come and tell me all about it,” commanded Laura.
Chet grabbed Billy by the collar and dragged him away from the girls. Then, after whispering to the smaller boy, emphatically, for a minute, he let him go and rejoined his sister.
“Now, what do you want to know, Sis?” he demanded.
“All about it,” said Laura, eagerly. “Is there really a sheriff’s posse hunting him?”
“Who’s who?” asked Chet, in much amazement.
“Why—whoever they are chasing,” replied Laura, rather blankly.
“Just curiosity?” Chet wanted to know.
“You can call it that,” responded the girl, smiling whimsically at him.
“You never were just idly curious in all your life,” declared Chet, grinning at her. “Well! the men were after that fellow who stole from the Merchants and Miners Bank of Albany.”
“Oh!”