How about you?"
"I'm shore going to be careful about the kind of company I pick. But,
Jeff, we'll have to travel away from these parts. No good company
around here would welcome us. They wouldn't like the only references we
could give, Jeff."
"Oh, shore, we'll have to travel," agreed Moore. "That is, if the
sheriff doesn't take up our tickets before we get started."
"All this talk isn't showing us what became of Reade and Hazelton,"
remarked Rafe Bodson. "Let's go back under the trees and see if we can
find what has become of Reade and Hazelton. Before I change my post-
office box I'm going to try to do those two youngsters a good turn."
So the pair had started off. Yet, like the automobile searchers, Jeff
and Rafe did not expect to run across Tom and Harry and their captors so
close to the gully.
For this reason the pair proceeded without very much caution at the
outset.
Even now, after Duff and Ashby had sighted them, Moore and Bodson halted
twice to light matches and examine the trail that their keen eyes had
discovered as moving westward from the gully.
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