CHAPTER X
SPRINGING THE TRAP
“I wonder if the plan will work?” remarked Roger, when he and Dick once more found themselves alone, the captain having sauntered over to where some of the men were joking, Andrew Waller being the life of the company.
“If that torn part of a message meant anything,” Dick told him, “and Captain Lewis is able to bait the trap in the right way, I believe this night will see the answer to the question that has been bothering us so long.”
“Meaning that we will learn who the traitor is?” continued the other.
“Yes. Right now we are no nearer the truth than a week ago, you know, Roger. It may be any one of the three men we had in mind; or some one else, for that matter.”
“Look at Andrew Waller, Dick. He seems to be in high spirits! Do you think that is all put on for effect? From the way he acts no one could ever dream he had an evil thought in his heart for his comrades of the long trail.”
“As we exhausted that subject a long time ago, Roger, and have learned nothing new since, there’s no use trying to figure things out. Better wait, and, as my father says, ‘hold our horses’ until the trap is sprung—if it ever is.”
“But, if we do trip him up,” continued Roger, reflectively, “what do you believe Captain Lewis will do to the wretch?”
“He has not given us even a hint on that score,” Dick replied.