“Someone having engine trouble I guess,” he said as he noticed a man leaning over the raised hood.
Evidently the man did not hear them as they rode up behind him and stopped for he did not look up or turn his head.
“Anything we can do to help?” Bob asked.
The man gave a sudden start and turned around and the boys found themselves looking into the eyes of the man King.
“You?” the man growled, and then by an effort tried to efface the look of surprise from his face. “Pardon me,” he said. “At first I thought you were someone I knew.”
“I guess you made no mistake about that,” Jack told him.
“Anyhow we know you all right,” Bob added.
“You are mistaken, I tell you. But who do you think I am?”
“Your name was King the last time we saw you,” Jack replied.
“I told you, you were mistaken. My name is Long and always has been Long,” the man snapped.