Then he chanced to look up and see the soldiers and the Steam Horse.
A yell of triumph went up from the excited trapper’s lips.
“Hooray!” he shouted, “that’s the stuff. We’re all hunky now, I swan!”
The next moment the two erstwhile prisoners were standing beside the Steam Horse, and talking with Barney and Pomp and Captain Elmo.
The rescuers had come just in the nick of time.
CHAPTER XII.
FATE OF THE COUNTERFEITERS.
There was no question about this.
A little delay and the two prisoners would no doubt have passed in their final accounts.
As it was hardly likely that Frank would have been able to have escaped from the plateau.
It was, however, they were safe and there was good reason for self-congratulations. It had been a narrow escape.