"Why don't I go with you?"
"Because there's too much danger. It will be enough if you prevent any of the crowd from giving us the slip."
"But I want to do my share; it was through me that you found out where they were, and it isn't fair to make me stay behind?"
"You're a brick, my boy," Harvey exclaimed as he grasped Jet's hand warmly. "If we finish this work all right I'll show you a chance to earn a living, for you shall be my partner."
"Do you mean it?" Jet cried, speaking incautiously loud in his excitement.
"Every word; but we'll drop the matter now and attend to business. I've got a general idea of the lay of the land, and there must be no more time wasted. Keep close behind me."
Harvey then held a whispered conversation with his companions, during which it was decided that the barricade should be scaled near the gate, and the dog silenced, if possible, in the manner Jet settled the other one.
"Don't shoot unless it is absolutely necessary," Harvey said in conclusion, "for we must take those fellows by surprise."
"It isn't likely they've been obliging enough to leave the door open so we can walk in," one of the party suggested.
"By attacking that with the heaviest sticks of cordwood after the brute is killed, we should be able to pound our way through in a very few seconds. Now come on, and work lively after we are in the yard."