Golden Days for Boys and Girls / Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

his unlucky friend Bob in some way that he joined

young farmers who belonged to his party were longer of limb than he was, and they pushed ahead at

leaving the officer so far behind, "and we can't do it by loafing along like that sheriff does. We've got a mortgage t

his disappointment and his brother's harder to bear was the reflection that if they had left Tom's cabin half an hour

the robbers had been captured. They ran forward at the top of their speed, hoping to reach the s

ty, they found the robber securely bound, and Bri

ed over his good fortune. "You can't lay claim to any of o

the money," panted

e thought upon the prisoner during the whole forenoon.

ls were full of men, we set him at liberty, and I suppose he made the best of his way home. We d

been sitting on a log to recove

u done with y

gone off that way," answered the captive, nodding

ound the prisoner and substituted a pair of hand-cuffs for the rope with which his arms had b

and there he found Bob Emerson, who was rummagi

ngry," said Bob, after he and Tom had greeted each other as though they had been separate

onging eyes toward his game-bag. "I didn't take much of a lunch with me, a

Bob. "By-the-way, did yo

drew out a soiled and crumpled letter, which lo

ment that he and Tom had left

ened away by something that dodged into the bushes before they could get a sight at it, and which they took to be a ghost. Well, it wasn't a ghost at all, but one of the thieves, who had been to the Beach after supplies. He found the letter, and read it. Of course he was greatly alar

d know it,

y we came down the gorge. We were close upon their camp before they knew it, and for a minute or two they didn't know what to do.

uld be back sooner or later to l

and were making preparations to leave it when Silas and Dan put in their appearance. The robbers saw and heard them long before the

they could not scare everybody

hey fell into trouble. They took Joe Morgan's house for a wood-chopper's cabin, and while we were robbing them, they were foraging on

ose a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in money and securities, no matt

in fear of immediate capture, I should have a different story to tell, if, indeed, I were

not express your honest sentiments when you told

low do with a cocked revolver flourished before his eyes

ed Tom. "But do you suppose they thought they

I thought 'robbers' once? As true as you live, I didn't. I took them for poachers, and told them, very politely, that these grounds were posted and they couldn't be allowed to shoot there, when all on a sudden it po

you with their rev

at it, they found that they had got an elephant on their hands. Then they would have been glad to get rid of me

cabin, and then they thought they wouldn't-that they would hunt up another hiding-place as soon as possible; so

s their guide when

ied that

ound a bit, and lead th

ks. We camped over on Dungeon Brook last night, and set out again at an early hour this morning; but before we had been in motion an hour, we found ourselves cut off from the upper end of the h

" said Tom. "The robber that Br

b, who hadn't heard of it before. "T

g about the other one now," added Tom, directing his companion's attention to a large party of men who were at that

ey have all got guns on their shoulders, and that proves

of citizens of Bellville and Hammondsport, who had abando

nd forthwith desired a full history of the letter which had bee

erous supply of bread and meat which one of the men drew from his hav

they were coming out again, bright and early the next morning, to resume the search for robber number two. They were not g

alone, Tom wrote the notice which Joe Morgan found pinned to the