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That's the only way out sometimes, and that's what would happen every time if I had my way." Holcomb made no reply. No good could come to the hide-out by stirring up his case. All his friends said he was dead; that is, to strangers some of whom might be sheriffs. The talk now entered another channel one more to Holcomb's liking.
"He's started on consid'ble of a trip now," replied the hide-out. "I see what was left of him." "Dead!" exclaimed Thayor. "Burned blacker 'n a singed hog. They ain't much left of him, and what they is ain't pleasant to look at. He ain't got but one arm left and that's clutchin' a holt of a empty ker'sene can." Thayor gave a short gasp. "And it was that cheat, Bergstein!" he cried in amazement.
Brett, leaning over the table, was stabbing around futilely in one of the sets of tubes in a complicated testing device. "Wish we had that squirt Manning here," he mumbled. "He could fix these things up in no time at all." "I could always go back to the hide-out and get him," suggested Miles. On the balcony Tom gripped Astro's arm tightly. "Astro! Did you hear that?" he exclaimed.
It seemed very important that Jack should have a picturesque hide-out there; a secret cave, perhaps, with a tilting rock to cover the doorway. "It would be great," declared Marion, clasping her hands together with her favorite ecstatic gesture. "If we could just find a cave with a spring away back in it, don't you know, and a ledge outside where you could watch for enemies wouldn't that be keen?
Will you come closer, Mr. Dinsmore" it was marvellous how he never omitted the prefix; "would you mind moving up so that you can listen the better? I am going to do what I can to end your sufferings." The hide-out shambled up and sat in a crouching position, the blanket about his shoulders, his hollow eyes fixed on Thayor.
He chopped dead manzanita bush and carried it on his back to his hide-out, and was tickled with the pile he managed to store away in one end of the cave. Working in warm weather, it seemed to be a great deal of wood. From the lookout station he watched the slow building of the storm that so worried Murphy because of the Toll-Gate people.
Remember, I've got those three Space Cadets and Strong to worry about." "You can't expect to get what we're after unless you take chances. Now get back to the spaceport and put this stuff in Barnard's feeders. You blast off tomorrow morning before he does and won't have much time." "O.K.," agreed Quent. "When did Ross get to Luna City?" "Yesterday. I had him come in from the hide-out."
"Right," replied Miles. "But stay well in back of them and keep your gun on them all the time." "How long do you think it'll take to get the ship loaded?" asked Brett. "Couple of hours. But what are you going to do about Walters if he's wise?" Miles shrugged his shoulders. "Simple," said Brett. "We take the stuff we've got, haul it to the hide-out, dump it, and return to Atom City.
This was the nearest they could ever come to it, for they did not have a chance to make the personal acquaintance of the three hide-out men, and therefore could not get information at first quarters. When the morning came the scouts were not so merry as they had felt on the previous evening when all things looked rather rosy.
The fugitive must have come to believe that by this time he would have thrown any possible tracker off the scent; at any rate, he tried no new game looking to baffling pursuit. Gliding along like shadows the seven scouts made fair progress. Elmer was of the opinion that at any minute now they might come upon the spot where the unknown had his hide-out.
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