They didn't get off their message at Lamar, because the office is closed and the operator gone, and they will keep out of the valley and away from the big inn, because they are rather worried by this time and not anxious to get too near Marhof.

They've probably decided to go to the next station below Lamar to do their telegraphing.

Meanwhile they haven't got me!" "They had me and didn't want me," said Claiborne, mounting his own horse.
"They'll have a good many things they don't want in the next twenty-four hours.

If I hadn't enjoyed this business so much myself we might have had some secret service men posted all along the coast to keep a lookout for them.

But it's been a great old lark.