"You must; our only hope is that you can reach a telegraph station. Run the best you know how while I give them something to occupy their attention."
Jet hesitated no longer.
It seemed cruel to desert a wounded friend; but the order had been given, and he could not refuse to obey it.
Harvey discharged his weapon rapidly, and the boy ran at full speed in the opposite direction fearing he would never again see in life the man who had promised to befriend him.
CHAPTER XII
THE ENCOUNTER
Jet was now traveling over a country with which he was not familiar, and to continue on would be to take great chances of losing his way, at least during the hours of darkness.
It was necessary, therefore, or at least he thought so, to get into that section of the woods over which he had previously journeyed.
To do this he was forced to make a half circle around the building, and as he ran, keeping at about the same distance from the house as he and Harvey had gained, the sounds of the conflict could be distinctly heard.