"I-I guess not," they heard Sue say.
"Thought I heard you whisperin'."
"If your hands and feet were tied as tight as mine I reckon you'd do more than whisper," she told him.
"It's too bad, but I don't dare do nuthin'."
"Reckon I can stand it," they heard her tell him.
"Reckon yer'll have ter."
The man went out and the boys could hear her sigh of relief. For some moments they waited not daring to whisper again and then a slight movement from inside the tent warned them that she was edging closer to the wall of the tent. Bob slipped the guy rope from one of the pegs and, in another minute she was on the outside.
Without even a whisper they crept noiselessly back into the forest until they felt that they were safe.
"How'd you ever find me?" Sue whispered as she leaned back against a tree.
In a few words Bob told her how they had stumbled onto the trail and had followed Royce and the other man to the cache.