Tom, Dave and Dan started in swift pursuit, but the tramp soon doubled on his pursuers in the darkness and got away.
"Let him go," counseled Dick.

"We've enough else to occupy our attention." So Greg ran out to pass the word to the pursuers to discontinue the chase.

Tom, when he returned, was very angry.
"You'd no business to leave the fellow like that, Darry," he growled, "and I was a big fool not to be better on my guard.

That fellow will make trouble for us yet---see if he doesn't." "There was no use in chasing him any further, if he eluded you in the darkness," Dick remarked.

"Dave, you get up on the wagon beside Mr.Hinman.