From camp not a shot was fired, for the watchmen had had the only
weapons and these had been seized by the invaders.
"Our foremen might telegraph to camp," thought Tom swiftly, as he felt
himself being carried away. "But I'll wager that these smart scoundrels
didn't forget to cut the wire before springing the raid."
For the first two or three minutes Harry's, slower moving mind hardly
grasped more than the fact that their enemies appeared to have won a
complete triumph.
"There isn't much doubt as to what they'll do with us," thought
Hazelton, with a slight shudder. "These rascals will move too fast for
pursuit to overtake them early. What they in intend to do with us can
be done in a very few minutes."
Neither young engineer really expected to live to see daylight. From
the first, after having incurred the anger of a certain lawless element
in Paloma, the young engineers had understood fully that threats of
lynching them had not been idly made.
"There'll be a stir, though," Tom Reade muttered to himself.
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