"Hello, Billee. What about it?"
"Water's there all right! Must 'a' come back in th' night! She's runnin' fine now!"
CHAPTER V
ANOTHER WARNING
Bud Merkel was about to hang up the receiver, with a blank and uncomprehending look on his face, when Babe caught the black rubber earpiece from him.
"Wait a minute, Billee!" called Babe into the transmitter. "See anything of anybody around there? Anything suspicious?"
The others could not hear what the old cowboy's answer was, but Babe soon enlightened them.
"He says it's all serene," Babe declared as he now hung up the receiver. "Nobody in sight, an' the water is runnin' through the pipe as natural as can be."
"I can't understand it!" declared Bud. "It was almost as dry as a bone when we left last night."