"You're wide-awake, Carl," said Matt grimly, "and so am I. What do you think of that?"

"I don'd know vat to t'ink, und dot's all aboudt it. Dere's peen nodding but funny pitzness efer since you shtopped der car ven it vas running avay mit itseluf—schust vone keveer t'ing afder some more. Chiminy plazes! I feel like I vas going pughouse. Domlinson come afder dot ledder, too."

"Sure he did."

"Und dose odder fellers vas afder it."

"No doubt."

"Und dose odder fellers got it——"

"And Tomlinson will think I was the one who took it, and that I am keeping it."

"Vat you t'ink, Matt? Vill you go und tell der deputy sheriff?"

"No. What we have discovered we will keep to ourselves. We don't know enough, yet, to lodge a complaint against anybody."

"Ve'll go on to Tenver mit Domlinson?"