“We can get them; and if you want your share of them, you have only to join my company. If you will, I’ll tell you the rest.”
“I’m yours,” replied the major.
“And you?” asked the leader, turning to Somers, who had been listening eagerly to the conversation.
“I go with De Banyan.”
“Good! Tippy—that’s my scout—will come down in the train with the pay-master. The cars will stop at the broken bridge, and Tippy will come over here with his information; and all I have to do then will be to pounce on the escort, and pocket the greenbacks. What do you think of it?”
“It’s a tip-top idea, and I’m with you.”
“I expect Tippy will be here to-morrow.”
“All right; I can help you about this business.”
“You can; now, if you could step in and tell the pay-master you are a Yankee, and with that smooth tongue of yours prevent him from taking too much cavalry with him, you would earn your share of the money.”
“I will do it.”