As he stood up in this he heard a faint whistle, and whispered, "Jeanette."
The girl came forward in the dark, her hand touching his arm.
"I'm so glad," she whispered. "We'd better stand here in the dark, for I have something serious to tell you."
Then in a low tone the girl said:
"The Wolf and Cayuse Braun are going to hold up the train to-night, just at the end of the trestle, and rob the express car."
"Is Seth in it?"
"Yes, he's standing in, but he isn't going to help on the job. The Wolf is going to board the train at the station, and enter the express car when the train is creeping over the trestle. He's got a bar and rope for fastening the door of the car behind the express car. When the engine reaches the other side Cayuse will jump it, hold up the engineer, and make him stop the train long enough to throw the gold off while the other cars are still on the trestle; then the Wolf will jump off, and Cayuse will force the engineer to carry the train on, and he will drop off on the up-grade, half a mile beyond."
"Old stuff, but rather effective," Carney commented; "they'll get away with it, I believe."
"I listened to them planning the whole thing out," Jeanette confessed, "and they didn't know I could hear them."
"What about this little tunnel under the jail—that's a new one on me?"