"Where's the gentleman?" inquired the youth, with a vacant look.
"Jones, chase that boy and give him a lesson."
Jones undertook to do so, but he was short and fat, and the boy easily eluded him. He climbed over a fence on one side of the railway, and began to make faces at the pair.
"What would you have done to me if you had caught me?" he asked in a mocking and derisive tone.
"Given you a first-class thrashing," growled Jones.
"Then I'm glad you didn't catch me. Say, I saw you get out of the train."
"Suppose you did?"
"You were kicked out. What had you been doin'?"
Angry as the two adventurers were at their humiliating treatment, their feeling of indignation was intensified by the boy's taunts. Jones was about to make an angry retort, when Barlow stopped him.
"Don't mind the boy," he said. "We'd better be getting on."