“Thanks, old man,” and Bob gave his brother’s hand a hearty squeeze. “Now I’d like mighty well to know where that fellow is going and who he’s going to meet but it’ll be terribly risky to follow him. I tell you he’s a keen one and if either or both of us ever get into his hands again it’ll go hard with us and we won’t get away so easily.”
“Mebby you call the last time easy but I thought it was pretty strenuous myself.”
“I mean comparatively. It was hard enough while it lasted.”
“I’ll say it was.”
“Well, what do you say? Shall we take the risk and follow him?”
“Why of course,” Jack replied quickly as though there were no other course. “That’s what we are here for, isn’t it?”
“Good boy. I thought you’d say that. Now, Jack, I really think that this is the most serious thing we’ve ever been up against and we’ve simply got to be careful and take no unnecessary chances. We must not get caught. But we’d better get started or he’ll get so far away that we’ll lose him. We’ve got to skirt the top here and keep in the woods. It would never do to show ourselves on that open space.”
“Think we’ll be able to trail him?”
“I hope so but it’ll be no cinch. I wish Kemertok was here. He could do it easily but I reckon it’ll take all our knowledge of woodcraft.”
“But you managed to follow us the other day all right.”