“Oh, will he!” Alex. answered. “Then he’ll do more than we could. I’ll bet the walls of that hole are a foot thick! And the air? I’m choked to death.”
“We tried our best to get out and couldn’t,” Case added.
“Suppose we see if he is badly hurt before we leave him?” Jule put in.
An examination showed that the dog had seized the fellow by the shoulder and bitten through the flesh, making an ugly though not serious wound.
“That won’t hurt him!” Alex. declared. “His chums will come and get him in the morning, anyway. Chuck him in and lock the door and we’ll climb out of this!”
“Isn’t the place watched?” asked Jule, peering out cautiously.
“It would be if the outlaws weren’t drunk,” Alex. replied. “There’s a copper over on the other side of the street. Probably he heard the shots. We’ll duck out of a back window and make for the Rambler.”
The boys were watched furtively by the policemen in that section of the city as they made their way along the streets with the dog, but they were not molested. When they came to the residence district where there was little fear of their being followed, Jule turned to Alex. with a grin.
“How did you like the play?” he asked?
“You saw about as much of it as we did!” was the reply.