As the boy went down, two men bounded over him.
Carl was up almost as soon as he was down. Some one else was coming, and he flung out his hands and made a grab.
"Vaid a leedle!" he puffed savagely. "I got you, anyvay, und——"
"Let go, Carl!" came Matt's excited voice. "Take after those two men! See who they are, if you can!"
Carl gasped and withdrew his hands.
"Vell, oof it ain'd Matt!" he muttered. "So many t'ings vas habbening, all in a punch, dot I peen all mixed oop in my mindt!"
With that, Carl rushed away in the direction taken by Matt.
[CHAPTER VII.]
THE TWO HORSEMEN.