"How did you know we had been here?"
"Us fellers saw you come down in a boat."
"So all three are in the secret, eh?"
Sam's only thought was that he might possibly save his own skin, and he replied in the affirmative, although he must have known that by such answer he was destroying his friends' chances of recovering the goods.
"Where are the fools now?" Long Jim asked, angrily.
"Up at the fair."
"What do they intend to do?"
"Get somebody to arrest you."
"Then we've got to skip mighty lively, Phil," and Long Jim looked up at his companion.
"Yes; but if my advice had been follered we wouldn't be in this scrape. You was the only one the cubs knew, an' by keepin' out of sight we mighter finished the work that's been laid out. You're so pig-headed that a yoke of oxen couldn't keep you in hidin'."