"Jim Truscott—whoever he may be," responded Mason with a laugh, as he freed the last rope.
"Ah! Well, come right in—and bring him along too."
But Mason remembered the animals that had served him so well.
"What about the 'plugs'?" He was holding his captive, who stood silent at his side.
"You go inside. I'll see to them."
Dave watched Mason conduct his prisoner into the office, then he sprang into the buckboard and drove it across to the barn.
CHAPTER XXV
MASON'S PRISONER
In a few minutes Dave returned from the barn. He had chosen to attend to the horses himself, for his own reasons preferring not to rouse the man who looked after his horses.