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"Wonota ain't no horse. Did you think she was?" "I know what she is," returned the man promptly. "It's what she is going to be that interests me. I'm Bilby Horatio Bilby. Maybe you've heard of me?" "I have," said Ruth rather sharply. At once Mr. Bilby's round, dented, brown hat came off and he bowed profoundly. "Happy to make your acquaintance, Miss," he said.
Ruth was sure she had made no mistake in her identification of the rival picture producer who had made her so much trouble back at the Red Mill. "I must tell Mr. Hammond at once," she concluded. "If Bilby is here, he is here for no good purpose, I can be sure. And if he has a boat like that at his command, we must keep double watch." "You think he would try to abduct Wonota again?" queried Chess.
"Who is it?" asked the young fellow, in surprise at Ruth's excitement. "It's Bilby!" gasped Ruth. "That horrid man! I I hoped we had seen the last of him. And now he's right here where we are working with Wonota." She had said so much that she had to explain fully about Bilby, while they sat and watched the speed boat disappear up the river.
Course, he runs the tracks; he runs 'em all day, an' at night he lays down, an' I s'pose he swears his self to sleep. Nex' mornin', off he scoots agen, an' jist before sundown he hears the bells, an' he pipes the tail end o' the string ahead; an' the front end was jist at the Bilby Well sixty good mile, if it's an inch, an' scrub all the road.
Before Bilby could reply or anybody else could speak, Copley came to his feet with all the suddenness of a jumping-jack. Bilby squealed and started back, falling against the gruff man who had followed him into the cave and who was evidently the boatman. "What's this?" ejaculated this man. But that was all he said. The Chinamen squealed in unison, and that was all from them.
The night's adventures were by no means completed, for Ruth and Helen could not go to bed after they reached the bungalow until they knew how it all turned out. Mr. Hammond had returned before them, and Willie and Tom started at once for Chippewa Bay in the Gem. The capture of Bilby in connection with the smugglers and Chinese runners delighted the motion picture producer.
Bilby pending certain proceedings to break their contract with you." "Blunt enough," admitted Mr. Hammond, but without excitement. "Let's see: You have a paper of some kind, I suppose, to serve on me?" "I've a summons for you," said the officer, drawing forth some papers, "and I propose to take the two Indians back to the Bay with me."
She certainly would not have removed one of her pumps and thrown it away. Like Aunt Alvirah and Helen, Ruth knew that the figure beside Bilby in the car was not the missing Indian girl. He had attempted to use the scarecrow he had stolen from the cornfield across the road to bewilder anybody who might pursue him.
Hammond was within reach; but she knew he was already on his way to the Thousand Islands, for which she herself expected to start the next day with Wonota and her father. She had not heard much about this Bilby; but what she had learned together with what she now saw of him impressed her not at all in his favor.
The Indian shook himself much as a dog might. A lighter expression flickered over his dark face. "I shall not suffer cold from a wetting," he said. "It is nothing. I have nothing at the hotel. We will go now." "Come on, then," rejoined Ruth, promptly. "It is best that we get away before Bilby can learn that his plan to make Wonota a captive miscarried. Hurry!"
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