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Passmore, and he quietly placed himself in front of the door. "Let me pass! Let me pass!" shrilled Job Haskers, and now he looked thoroughly scared. "Don't you wish to talk this matter over?" questioned Mr. Fordham, wonderingly. "No, sir. I am not going to stay here to be made a fool of!" cried the former instructor. "Let me pass, I demand it!" he added, to Bert's father.
Presently the boys saw Haskers turn up a side road, one that led to a small hotel, standing on a hill overlooking the lake. "He's going to the Fenton House," said Bert. "Maybe he is stopping there." "Possibly," returned Dave. Slowly following the man, they saw Job Haskers enter the hotel and walk in the direction of the reading-room. Roger stopped the car and turned to the others.
"Porter, do you include me in that remark?" demanded Job Haskers, drawing himself up as had been his fashion when an instructor at Oak Hall. "I certainly do," replied Dave. "You are impertinent!" "It won't do you any good to act in that way, Job Haskers," returned our hero. "We know you for the rascal that you are. You committed a crime at Oak Hall, and you did what you could to swindle Mr.
"They can't be following us if they are ahead of us," he replied, with a faint smile. "Well, you know what I mean." "I don't know what to think, Laura. Merwell may be going West to join his folks. They are somewhere out there." "But Haskers "
"Was one of the strangers an elderly man and the other a young fellow like ourselves?" asked Roger. "Yes, a tall, thin man. The young feller called him Haskers, I think." "What name did the young man go by?" asked Dave. "Morse, I think or something like that." "Morr?" put in Phil. "Yes, I reckon that was it. Then you know 'em?" questioned the storekeeper, with interest.
"They sure are a slick pair." It was some time later, and Dave and the other boys stood on the broad piazza of the hotel discussing the situation. Following the talk with the observation car agent they had looked into the reading-room only to discover that Job Haskers and Link Merwell had vanished.
"Somehow I feel it in my bones that that is the Blugg gang and that Link and old Haskers are with 'em," said Phil. "To my mind, all those fellows are tarred with the same brush, and they would like nothing better than to relocate the lost Landslide Mine first." "Perhaps you are right," returned Dave. "Well, I don't see how we are going to stop them from going ahead I mean Blugg and Haskers.
Then Dillon came up with his crowd, and they made matters worse than ever. We had some information that we didn't want the others to have, so we got out," went on Link Merwell, glibly. He was now recovering from his fright. "Got information, have ye?" cried Larry Jaley. "About wot fer instance?" "About what those fellows are after," answered Merwell. "Isn't that so?" he asked, of Haskers.
And in this surmise our hero was correct. Link had been the one to sever his bonds and he had untied Job Haskers, and then both of them had lost not an instant in quitting the locality, being afraid that some of the others might awaken before they could make good their escape. "Well, I am just as well satisfied," whispered Roger to Dave and Phil. "I didn't want to hold them, anyway.
"Say, supposing we ask the men around here if they saw anything of Merwell and Haskers?" suggested the senator's son. "It won't do any harm," answered Dave. Inquiries were made of the baggage-master, a ticket-seller, and half a dozen other men around the depot. But none of them remembered having seen the pair mentioned. "They probably kept out of sight," was Dave's comment.
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