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Oh, save me!" whined Jaley, and he turned a face full of fear on those before him. "Where are Merwell and Haskers and Blugg?" asked Dave. "All gone swept away by the landslide!" was the whining reply. "Oh, it was awful! It smashed them all up and smashed up the horses, too! Oh, save me! Save me!" And then Larry Jaley gave a gasp and fell in a heap, unable to say another word.
"We've been wondering if they had anything to do with the disappearance of the horses." "We have been wondering the same thing," said Phil. "I spoke to papa about it, and he says he will interview Mr. Merwell if they get no trace of the thieves," said the ranch owner's daughter.
"I don't want to see him," answered Dave, soberly. But this wish was not to be fulfilled. He was to meet Link Merwell in the near future, and that meeting was to be productive of some decidedly unpleasant results. Dave soon returned to the field with a rope, and the representation of a bear was swung from the lower limb of an old apple tree.
"I should think he'd want to invite some of his friends to visit him." "Maybe Mr. Merwell don't want it. He's putty close, you must remember, and it costs money to entertain." "Well, I pity Link if he has got to stay there alone." "He don't stay all the time.
"So am I," put in the senator's son. "Just the same, Dave, Haskers will try to get square with us if he ever gets the chance." "Oh, I know that. But I don't intend to give him the chance." "Speaking of our enemies, I wonder what ever became of Link Merwell," said Phil. "He seems to have dropped out of sight completely." "I rather imagine he has left the country," returned Roger.
"Good!" murmured Dave. "Then Merwell and Haskers will be sold outside of getting your clothing." The porter was closely questioned, but could give no very good description of the man who had presented the order for the suit-case. "I was busy waitin' on an old lady wot was sick," he explained. "I jess read that order and got the suit-case, and he went off in a hurry.
And you are Abe Blower?" "I sure am. But see here " "We'll explain everything in a few minutes, Mr. Blower. These fellows are swindlers! They robbed me of my suit-case and then got ahead of me, and that fellow impersonated me," and Roger pointed to Merwell. "We hired Mr. Dillon to bring us to you or at least he offered to come.
The two elk and the bear were brought in, and it was decided to start back for the ranches the next morning. "I must see Mr. Endicott on important business," said Dave to Sid Todd, and then, in private, he told his chums what he had heard concerning Link Merwell. Todd was told about Charley Gamp, and said he hoped that the finding of the son would make a new man of Snogger.
The former bully of Oak Hall looked haggard, as if his dissipation in Chicago and elsewhere had done him much harm. His eyes were heavy as he stood and stared about him. Hank Snogger had gone forward, to care for the mail from the Merwell ranch. "Hello, you here!" cried Link, stepping forward and confronting Dave. "I am," was the cool answer. "Got here ahead of me, eh?" "So it would seem."
"And to think that he told me he was going to reform!" "That sort of a chap doesn't reform," asserted Roger. "Oh, I don't know. Gus Plum reformed." "Yes, but Plum isn't like Merwell, or Jasniff. He was simply overbearing. These other fellows are downright dishonest." The four boys walked back to the automobile, and soon they were returning to the hotel at which Bert was staying.
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