"Right here. We'll stay in the woods a night or two."
"Have you got anything to eat?"
"No; but it's an easy matter to buy all we want."
"Take this money in case it is necessary to leave on the jump, an' I'll go on."
Handing his mate the twenty dollars, Joe went at a sharp gait toward Blacktown, and Bill said, with a shrug of the shoulders:
"So we're both thieves 'cordin' to the cashier's ideas; but wait 'till we get the land secured, an' I'll give that young man a lesson such as won't be very pleasant."
"Do you really mean to sleep in the woods?"
"Why not? It's warm weather, an' we'll be pretty nigh as well off there as at home."
"Then we'd better be looking for a good place. If mother hadn't sent word that I was to stay away, I'd go to Farley's this minute an' let them arrest me, for it seems as if we act guilty by running off."
"That's jest my idee, lad; but we'll obey orders a day or two."