But the enemy?"
"It would take four mules apiece to drag them over here tonight," laughed Reade, as he rolled himself up in his blanket. "Good night!"
CHAPTER XI
PLANNING A NEW MOVE
Barely were the young engineers astir the following morning when
Alf Drew came racing back with news.
"There's a whole slew of men coming, on horseback and on foot!"
Alf reported. "And a whole train of wagons!"
"Good enough!" nodded Tom. "I hope the new folks camp right close to here. We need good neighbors more than anything else."
"But they may belong to Gage's crowd," Alf insisted.
"Don't you believe it, lad. Dolph Gage hasn't money enough to finance a crowd like that."
"It may be Dunlop's crowd," suggested Hazelton.