The words seemed so much like an echo of his own thoughts that the boy engineer started with surprise at the question.
“I’ll bet yeou,” continued Plum, “they’ll make us more trouble than the fellers in the bushes.”
“Plum Plucky, you just speak my mind. I was thinking how we could best get rid of them.”
“Bully for yeou, Jack North! Tell me what to do and I’m with yeou tooth and nail.”
“In one respect we are fortunate,” said Jack, in a tone which showed that he had been pondering carefully over the matter. “The car they are in is to the extreme rear.”
“You intend to take the freight through if possible?”
“At any cost.”
“Well, then, what does their being in the rear car have to do with our getting the rest through? Looks so they air fixed to help the raiders best so.”
“Why simply--look yonder!” said Jack, pointing suddenly a little to their right in the distance ahead.
Plum Plucky did as he was told.