“And not a hint of when they were coming back?”
“No.”
We were silent again. Presently Wilson cleared his throat:
“Those fellows up there, the miners must have got away. The captain wouldn’t take her up there if they were there.”
“And he took the doc’ with him, too,” reminded Pierce. “Somebody must have got hurt.”
“Were they hard men, these two miners?” asked Wilson of me. “They were, eh? Well, the way it looks to me, they hurt some of the crew and got away, and the crew is still after them. They’ll be afraid to let ’em get away if they’ve had a fight. The miners would get word to the outside and they’d come back with help.”
“But Brack can’t be taking part in the chase if there is one,” I interrupted.
Wilson shook his head.
“He came back here. He wouldn’t be doing that if he was in the chase.”
“And he took Miss Baldwin with him,” supplemented Pierce.