"There was a couple of duffers hangin' round the other depot waitin' for the train, an' I wouldn't wonder if they was the ones. The short feller bought two tickets for Cooperstown Junction."
"How did you happen to hear all that?"
"I went after some parlor car tickets for our boss."
"Has the train gone yet?"
"It oughter left at seven this mornin'."
"An' it's most night now, so they've got off."
"Was they runnin' away from somebody?"
Just for an instant Jet was on the point of telling this brother messenger the whole story, but he checked himself in time and replied:
"I should think they'd want to after playin' such a trick on me. Say, how am I goin' back to New York?"
"I dunno 'less you walk; I don't reckon you wanter stow away on the boat?"