"Don't you know, Lieutenant?"
"If I did I shouldn't be asking you. Begging your pardon for my bluntness."
"One reason, but not the principal one, is that you bounced one of the gang from your camp."
"Go on. What's the big idea?"
"The big idea, as you call it, is that there is a price on your head up here! Now do you understand, Lieutenant?"
Hippy Wingate uttered a low, long-drawn whistle of amazement.
CHAPTER IX
THE POWER OF MIND
"What do you suppose it can mean, and who threw it into our camp?" wondered Elfreda Briggs, folding up the newspaper that contained the message to them.