A train was just leaving.
They quickly boarded it.
Away they were whirled to Missouri.
And that was the last Wrightstown ever saw of them.
CHAPTER III.
THE ELECTRIC STAGE.
Toward evening a chambermaid in the Sea Spider House went up to the room which had been occupied by the James Boys and discovered Sheriff Timberlake bound and gagged.
She was very much frightened at first, and ran screaming from the room, for she thought the apartment was vacant and had gone up to put it in order.
The landlord heard her shrieks, learned what frightened her, and hastening up to the room liberated the sheriff.
"Another victim of these villains!" he exclaimed.