"I'll testify ag'in him!" cried Steve despairingly.
"Very well! That's a bargain. We're goin' to have a meetin' to-night, at the old stone quarry near the bridge. Be on hand without fail, an' remember, that it's him or you," he added significantly.
CHAPTER XX.
The two girls clung closely to one another, after the manner of frightened womankind, striving vainly to abstract a grain of courage from a united fear—in the eyes of each a growing terror.
"We must find Milt and give him warning!" gasped Sally faintly to her companion, at last gaining courage and voice as the two men went slowly down the ravine, their voices dropping lower and lower until they grew but a dull, unintelligible murmur to the attentive ears bent keenly to catch their meaning.
"Yes," agreed Sophronia, "without delay. Is Steve Judson the man you overheard talking to the Squire?"
"The very one. I recollected his voice the minute he begun to speak."
"A pretty pair of villains they are,—him an' Jade, too!"