"And you would have been if luck hadn't been with you."
"Or God," Jack added quickly.
"You are right. I believe it was God who pulled those clouds together over the moon at just the right time."
"He saved my life, I really believe," Jack said, and, moved by the same impulse, the two brothers sank on their knees in the grass and no more sincere thanks ever reached the ear of God.
"But what did you find out?" Bob asked as they got to their feet.
"That's the worst of it," Jack replied sadly. "I didn't learn a thing except that it's day after to-morrow."
"What is?"
"That's what I don't know. You see I didn't dare get a foot nearer and they talked almost in whispers and I could only hear a word now and then. I heard the big man say day after to-morrow but I didn't get the connection at all."
"It's too bad, of course, but I'm mighty glad you didn't get any nearer. They'd have seen you sure as fate if you'd been a foot closer and it wasn't worth that, boy, not by a long shot."
"But we know that something's on the cards for the day after tomorrow. I suppose he really meant tomorrow as it was after twelve o'clock."