"Well, you found out all right, all right," commented Cole.
"I certainly did," chuckled his leader.
"I'd give a good deal to hear what Dillaby says when he reports to the old man. They'll go almost nutty in trying to decide if we are on to the fact that his friends the capitalists are really detectives."
"And while they're puzzling over it, why wouldn't it be the wisest move for us to vamoose?" inquired Clell.
"Did you ever know me to run away under fire?" retorted his leader, answering one question with another.
"That's all right, but there's such a thing as going too far. 'Three times and out,' you know. You may have got the best of them twice, but will you come off so well the third time?"
"You forget that we have one great advantage; we know exactly who they are while they are all up in the air as to our identities.
"I'm going to fight old Rozier to the last ditch!"
But within three short hours Jesse was destined bitterly to repent his decision and to regret that he had not followed his chum's advice.