"What do you think, Lucky?" Jack asked.
"Bob right. Eet too risky."
"You may be right but it seems to me that it would be worth the risk for we'd then have them at our mercy."
"But they'll sleep till six o'clock and that'll give us about six hours' start."
"Start for where?"
"Gee, that's so. Where are we going to start for? We haven't found Uncle yet."
"And he's up here somewhere and something tells me that that man Long has some kind of a connection with this gang." Jack declared as they reached the rear of the cabin.
"And, of course, we can't go till we find him."
"Of course not."
That they were in a predicament was evident to all. To be sure they had made good their escape for the time being, but they well knew that, as things stood then, their recapture was only a matter of a few hours and their captors would undoubtedly see to it that they did not make their escape a second time. If only their mission was completed and they could leave at once, the chances were greatly in favor of a complete get away, but, come what might, all three were agreed that such action was out of the question. While the men had, in a way, treated them kindly they knew that they were men who would hesitate at nothing to accomplish their purpose whatever that might be.