Let us, therefore, for a time, deviate here and follow their fortunes.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE ABDUCTION.
Chief Harmon of the Vigilants was not wholly content to abandon the trail of the cowboys, just here.
He indulged in quite an argument with Frank Reade, Jr.
His remarks were not without logic.
“Why, only look at the sense of the thing,” he declared, “It is by no means possible that the soldiers are going to have an easy time with Cliff and his men. They may turn the tables on them yet. I tell you it was a premature thing for that colonel to do, to set us adrift so quickly.”
“Yet he ought to know his own strength,” said Frank.
“I don’t believe he does.”
“I cannot but feel that he is doing the right thing.”
“I don’t feel that way.”