"I didn't know you had anything with you but the bomb, Bert." "That's all I did have," whispered Dodge, white-faced.

"Hustle out of here, Bayliss!" "What's the matter ?" "Hear that firing ?" "I thought you had been setting off fire crackers, Bert." "Fire crackers nothing!" ejaculated Bert, his face ghastly.

"Man alive, that's a fight going on up the slope between United States officers and a lot of desperate moonshiners! There goes the firing again." Bayliss heard it; he couldn't help that.
Then still nearer rang out the firing.
"We've got to get out of here as fast as our legs will take us," Bert insisted.

"Hustle before the bullets reach us." At that moment Dave Darrin broke from cover, running as fast as his legs could carry him.

As he raced toward camp Darrin called: "Reade! Danny! This is Darrin.