“I reckon we both know what to do,” declared the Vigilant captain tersely. “P’r’aps we kin work together. I’ll help you all I kin.”
“And I will help you,” replied Frank. “We will bring Cliff to justice if the Steam Man can help us to do it.”
“He will hang if I kin get my hands onto him.”
“But we must make no mistake. He is strongly backed up. You have only twenty-five men with you.”
“But they air all men,” replied Harmon, pluckily.
“I will not question that,” replied Frank, “but the weight of numbers would defeat you. Cliff has several hundred men in his command.”
“We’re not afraid of ‘em. Yet ye’re right enuff. It’s well fer us to go easy.”
“It is well to be careful,” said Frank. “I think that you had better keep along with us for a time.”
“All right!”
“I think there is no doubt but that the young girl whom Pomp saw in the hills was Bessie Rodman.”