"
The boys left their place of retreat just as a couple of bullets
spattered on rock.
CHAPTER XVII
JUST A LITTLE DARK WASH
More shots were fired, but the boys were soon out of range. A flush
of pink was showing in the sky now, and the sun would be up in half
an hour. Jimmie looked longingly toward the camp, and Ned turned his
footsteps that way.
"Speaking of quitters," Jimmie said, as they moved along, "the two
men who geezled me take the bun! They quarreled all the time because
some one else didn't come and do something they wanted done! No
wonder they ducked when one shot was fired!"
"About the boy you saw yesterday afternoon," Ned asked. "Are you sure
it was the lad who was brought to our camp?"
"Of course it was!"
"Dressed just the same?"
"Just exactly."
"Why didn't you take a picture of him?" asked Frank.
"Huh, don't you ever think I didn't," was the reply. "I've got it in
my camera now. When we get to camp I'll develop it and print some.
I've got pictures of the men, too, and about everything around the
hole in the ground where they hid me."
"That is as it should be!" Ned declared. "But how did you do it!"
"They are easy!" was all the reply Jimmie made.
A quarter of a mile away from the chimney rock Ned paused and looked
back.
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