"No, he won't!" cried Russ, with conviction. "They'll get him off, I think. There! He's free! I guess they took off his shoe."
As he spoke the girls looked, and they saw the man fall in a peculiar way, to one side, so as to be out of the path of the car, which swept past him. The vehicle, however, seemed to hit him, but of this neither Russ nor the girls could be sure.
"That's a queer accident," murmured Russ, as he started toward the scene of it. "Come on, girls."
Ruth and Alice went with him. There was a little crowd about the fallen man, and at the sight of the fellow's face Alice suddenly cried:
CHAPTER VI
NEW PLANS
Alice's announcement caused her sister to start in surprise. Ruth looked as if she could not understand, and Alice repeated:
"See, the man who fell is Dan Merley—the one who says daddy owes him five hundred dollars."