In less than an hour Ezekiel Mason’s home was reached. When they drove into the yard it made quite a sensation. Mrs. Mason and the hired man stood with mouths agape.
“Who have you got there, Ezekiel?” asked his wife.
“One of the Fox brothers!” answered the farmer in an important tone. “Me and my friend here took him.”
Luke smiled and so did the prisoner, uncomfortable though he was.
“It would have taken a dozen like that fool to have captured me,” he said in a low voice, but only Luke heard him.
CHAPTER XI
UNDER WATCH AND WARD
THE farmhouse was built after the model of many similar houses in New England. It was of two stories, with the front door in the center and a room on each side. Over the two stories was an unfurnished attic.