CHAPTER XXVII
SAUL GRIDLEY'S UNPLEASANT SURPRISE
All at once, five minutes after Bean had left the wagon, the tall form of Saul Gridley appeared in the center of the road. He smiled grimly.
"So you have come back?" he said, as Gerald pulled up.
"Yes," answered Gerald, calmly, though his heart beat rapidly with excitement.
"That was a mean trick you played on me!"
"What do you mean?"
"You know well enough. You thought yourself very smart, when you rode off with the gold and left me a box of gravel stones!"
"I didn't care to give you the gold. You asked me to give you the tin box, and I did so!"
"Yes; but you knew what I wanted. Didn't it occur to you that I would stop you on your return from the bank?"