"Well, we come up here an' done the job. You know about that, I guess.
Sam saw the young feller one night up at Boggs City, an' got
instructions from him. He was to help us git 'er away from here in an
automobile, an' the old man was to go across the ocean with 'er. That's
all I know. It didn't turn out their way that time, but Sam says it's
bound to happen."
Bonner, all eagerness and excitement, quickly looked around for
Anderson, but the marshal had surreptitiously left the room. Then,
going over to the door, he called for Anderson Crow. Bud Long was there.
"Anderson left five minutes ago, Mr. Bonner, hurryin' like the dickens,
too," he said. "He's gone to hunt up a feller named Barnes. He told me
to tell you when you came out."
CHAPTER XXXIV
Elsie Banks Returns
Bonner, considerably annoyed and alarmed by the marshal's actions, made
every effort to turn him back before he could ruin everything by an
encounter with Mr. Barnes. He sent men on bicycles and horseback to
overtake him; but the effort was unsuccessful. Mr. Crow had secured a
"ride" in an automobile which had brought two newspaper correspondents
over from Boggs City. They speeded furiously in order to catch a train
for New York, but agreed to drop the marshal at the big bridge, not more
than a mile from Judge Brewster's place.
Chagrined beyond expression, he made ready to follow Anderson with all
haste in his own machine.
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