A moment
later they caught sight of him, accompanied by two men from the town.
Judging from their gesticulations, the latter were more than ordinarily
excited. Incidentally, let it be recorded that neither of them, the
sheriff nor his deputy, had a beard.
"Here they are!" Will cried, as he caught sight of his friends. "I
thought I was on the right track. Any news since I left?"
"Not a thing," Frank answered. "The place has been absolutely deserted."
"Good," said Will, then, turning to the men beside him, added: "This is
the entrance we found to-day--you see the bushes hide it completely. But
there is another and a larger opening at the other end--that's the one
we stumbled into in the first place."
The two men listened to his words attentively, and when he had finished
set about little explorations of their own.
"You say there is another opening at the farther side?" one of them
inquired, pausing in the act of pushing aside the bushes. "That probably
is the main one."
"I think so," Will agreed, "but they both lead to the same place."
Satisfied on this point, the two continued their investigations.
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