"What makes you think so?"
"I don't have ter think so, I know it."
"Indeed."
Bob could keep his temper down as well as most boys but he was a bit nettled by the man's assurance and could not help showing it.
"Indeed I'll show yer," Hains snapped. "You two youngsters get out o' here while the gettin's good. The girl stays with us."
"What?"
"Yer heard me. Git."
"But—"
"Thar's no buts about it. When I say git I mean git."
Bob could see that the man meant business and his heart sunk within him. He was no coward but what could he and Jack do against six armed men? And yet, to desert the girl, even under the circumstances, seemed to him impossible.