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I guess that's gone for good. Near as I could make out o' Uncle Pete, the landslide at the west end of the island buried his treasure box a mile deep! It was in one o' the little caves, I s'pose." "Caves? Are there caves on the island?" "Lots of 'em. Big ones as well as small. If Uncle Pete wasn't plumb crazy, he had his money and papers in a hide-out that I'd never found."
"H. Ogden gets up and fixes his necktie. He says no more after they have taken the money off of him. "'A well-greased idea, says the sheriff captain, admiring, 'to slip off down here and buy a little sheep-ranch where the hand of man is seldom heard. It was the slickest hide-out I ever see, says the captain.
It was a toss-up in those days between the two, which was the most voracious! "Well, Frances, that's how it stood when we rode away with Simon Hawkins lashed to a pony between us. Before we reached the river we heard of a big band of outlaws that had come down from the Sierras and were trailing over toward Morales'. "We hurried back, leaving Simon staked down in a hide-out we knew of.
"Oh, I see what you mean!" exclaimed the taller lad, immediately. "Perhaps the secret hiding place of Mendoza and his crowd of cattle thieves may be somewhere around this same old rock pile. It'd be just like the tricky rustler to have a hide-out where nobody else ever came!" "Now, why didn't somebody ever think of that before?" ejaculated Frank, in a tone of mingled surprise and disgust.
"Shouldn't we have been standing guard?" "I thought about it," Scotty admitted, "but I figured there wasn't much sense to it. We'd welcome friend or foe at this point. Anyway, I don't think whoever hangs out here is part of the gang." "Why not?" "Wouldn't the gang have been at his hide-out instead of here in the hotel? Besides, this looks like a cache for just one man."
I hardly think they will attempt to molest a single, defenceless man. As for your son, I'll take care that no one sees him." As the day wore on and no tidings came from either Thayor or the hide-out, Holcomb's and the Clown's uneasiness became more and more apparent. The midday meal passed in comparative silence. By noon the sky became overcast and it drizzled intermittently.
"Just one thing you might do," remarked Jerry, finally setting her upright upon a flat rock on the side of the stream nearest the hunting camp, and some distance away from the secret entrance to his hide-out. "Oh! what is that?" cried Ruth, eagerly. "Find me a pickax, or a mattock, and put it right here on this rock. Do it at night, so no one will see you.
Such criminals usually are, though in this case it might be otherwise, Elmer had told them, since he believed the man had been a prisoner making his escape when first he struck Sassafras Swamp, and concluded to have his hide-out in its depths. Still Lil Artha was not for taking too many chances.
Miles turned to watch Astro and Tom start up the stairs to the balcony, the lead boxes on their shoulders. "What are you going to do with them?" he said. "Take them to the hide-out and decide later. Besides, they'll be handy for unloading the ship." "Good idea," nodded Miles. He took a deep breath and smiled.
Suddenly, and apparently without anything leading up to it, and as if some haunting memory of his own had prompted it, Thayor leaned forward and touched Billy's arm, and with a certain meaning in his voice asked: "There is something I have wanted to ask you ever since I came, Holcomb. Tell me about that poor hide-out the man your father fed in the woods that night. Did he get away?"
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