"The colonel is right about the man's dying," replied Tom, "for I was with him when he died."
"It's too bad," said Frank dejectedly.
"I shouldn't wonder if he did not know something," said Tom, "for he seemed to have something on his mind. He told me one time that his imprisonment and sickness happened as a judgment on him."
"If we could only have had his testimony before he died," mourned Frank.
"I got it," declared Tom triumphantly.
CHAPTER XXIII
CUTTING THEIR WAY OUT
Frank sprang to his feet.
"What do you mean?" he cried.