My answer satisfied them, and they unfolded their scheme. It was a scheme into which I entered for a purpose; they were to put it into execution that night, and I accompanied them—accompanied them into as great a peril as ever threatened my life.
I shudder, even now, when I think of that night.
[CHAPTER XIX.]
IN DEADLY PERIL.
Never shall I forget the adventures of the night when I accompanied Woglom and his pal on that expedition.
I have been in many ticklish places, but I never got into one where I was worse stumped than I was that night.
The circumstances were very peculiar, and the knowledge that at any moment I might be——
But, perhaps, it would be more intelligible to the reader, did I begin at the beginning and narrate the incidents of that escapade.
While the pair of precious villains pretended to have taken me fully into their confidence, they had not really done so.