He nudged his chum, then started to creep away.

Presently they rose and moved forward on foot.

Ere long they had left the mine well behind.
"I hate to go back into that polished robber's house at all," Harry muttered.

"Tom, what do you say?
We can cover at least the first dozen miles between now and daylight.

Let's make a streak for the railway and get back to the States." "But what about saving the victim of the intended swindle ?" objected Reade.
"We could come out with a newspaper exposure that would stop any American from buying the mine, or putting any money into it," proposed Hazelton.
"We might, only no newspaper would print such stuff.