"If anyone is trying to do anything to us, then we want to run the mystery down and put an end to it.

My idea is that the best thing we can do is to get up to the road, post ourselves at fair intervals and watch to see if anyone should pass." "Correct!" clicked Reade.

"And I think that would have been the best plan in the first instance." "If the powder-mill explosions are to keep up through the night," hinted Tom, "then there ought to be another one due within a few minutes.

In that case our tormentors may be getting ready to plan something now.

So let's hike for the road at once." Dick led the way, all three boys moving as noiselessly as they could.