“You could never climb up there,” I said. “Anyway, this is no false alarm. I saw him as plain as day.”
“So did I,” Westy whispered. Hunt and Will said they thought they had seen him too, but they weren’t sure because they had been seeing everything on account of being so dizzy.
Westy said, “Don’t talk loud, remember sound ascends.”
I made believe I was looking all around at the sky and I stole a look up that way again. Just as I did I saw a kind of a movement. I kind of knew that the person away up there in that car was watching us and sticking his head out as much as he dared.
Westy said, “We don’t know whether it’s the bandit or not, but whoever it is, we’ve got him. He’d break his neck jumping from up there. He couldn’t get hold of the trestle on either side of the car. That car must have been down here when we came along. Whoever it is, we’ve got him as sure as if we had handcuffs on him.”
“We’ve foiled him,” the kid whispered. “You said boys never capture bandits and things except in books. Now you see.”
Westy said, “Well, we’ve sure got him, and believe me, that’s a new way to capture a bandit.”
“It shows that scouts are resourceful,” Pee-wee said.