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"Well, gentlemen, you seem to want to make me your prisoner," said the scout, coolly. "Thet's wot," cried Ross. "Eh, Tucker?" To make Pawnee Brown a prisoner would be of no personal benefit to him. "You seem to bear me a grudge," said the boomer, eying him sharply. Tucker could not stand that gaze and his eyes dropped. "Yes, you're a prisoner," said Ross. "Let's bind him up, Skimmy." "Take that!"
"There's an old skimmy up the shore a ways." Already Quain was moving off in search of it. "Noticed her this morning. Daresay she leaks like a sieve, but at worst the water's pretty shoal inshore, hereabouts." "Cold comfort in that." "Better than none, you amiable " "Can you swim?" Amber demanded pointedly. "Like a fish. And you?" "Not like a fish." "Damn!"
Instantly dismounting, he tied his animal fast to a tree that the creature might not wander away again, and worked his way noiselessly through the brush. The voices came from a nearby clearing, and approaching, Rasco saw on horseback Louis Vorlange and half a dozen cavalrymen, among them Tucker, Ross and Skimmy, the trio who had sought to detain Dick as a horse thief.
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