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This man stood at the doorway behind the vines for a moment after the others had gone below and then seated himself on a crumbling wall not far away. "Why don't you geezle him?" whispered Jimmie, who was not staying back very far, much to Ned's amusement. "I was thinking of that," Ned replied. "I shall have to circle around so as to get in on him from behind."
"If they didn't know before," Jack said, "they know now. It won't take them long to geezle the Manhattan now. Say," he added, "roll over here and eat these cords. If I could get down to them I'd soon be free." "I wonder if I could?" asked Jimmie.
Sandy grinned. "We'll sneak down so quietly that any person who happens to be at the bottom of the shaft with the light will never suspect that we are within a hundred miles of the place. We may be able to geezle the fellow that's making the ghost walk around here nights." The boys took to the ladders and moved down as silently as possible.
Jimmie sprang up, uninjured, as Ned advanced and the two grasped hands with more than ordinary feeling. Almost the first thing Jimmie said was: "I saw the lights of the Vixen last night, but thought the other fellows would be in charge of her. How did you manage to geezle her?" "We stole her and smashed her." Ned laughed, telling the remainder of the story in as few words as possible.
In that case, these cheap flatties would geezle him and make for the Union Pacific railroad without stopping to say good-by to the hills. And once they get to the railroad, it's all off with the young man in Chicago who is soon to be tried for murder." While the boys discussed the situation, Katz caught sight of the moving figure in the entrance to the cavern.
"When he hasn't been after me," laughed the patrol leader. "But you mustn't be too certain that the arrest of this man would end the case. He may be after the mine, may even have a copy of the description in Mr. Cameron's office, and yet be entirely innocent of the crime." "He ought to be pinched for trying to geezle me in the eats house," grinned Frank.
And Jimmie was munching a great sandwich as he drew near to the waiting boy. "S-a-y!" Jimmie exclaimed, as the boys met and walked away together, apparently free of surveillance. "That was a fresh cop. Wanted to geezle me for a robber. If Ned hadn't come across just as he did, there'd 'a' been a scrap.
"For instance," Frank said, "what do you think of the fellow over there talking with the man in the kimono and the derby hat of the vintage of 1880?" "He's short and broad, and one of his shoulders is higher than the other," Jimmie replied. "Don't attract his attention," Ned warned. "He sat there when we came in, and does not seem to notice us." "You goin' to geezle him?" asked Jimmie.
"Of course I know, but I'm not going to tell, cause we all agreed that the story should never be told by any member of our party until Elmer gets ready to tell it. So you see you've got to wait!" "If I had my way about it," gritted Tommy, "I'd go back there and geezle that bum detective and wall him up in a chamber until he got hungry enough to tell the story himself.
"Wonder if that old gear-face thinks he can guard us an' sleep, too? Say, you watch your chance, Ned, an' I'll roll over and geezle him an' you get out of the house. Roll out, tumble out, any way to get out! There," with a sigh of disappointment, "there's another Chink in the game. Listen to what they are saying!" Jack and Frank sat long by the window, waiting for Ned and Jimmie to return.
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