Watch those boys closely, and keep Joaquin posted.

I can find out every thing I want to know from him." "My plans are working nicely," chuckled Arthur, as he rode homeward.
"I'll teach these backwoodsmen manners, before I am done with them." "Eighty thousand dollars!" said Pierre, gazing after the retreating horseman.

"That's a nice little sum to be divided among six of us." This remark will show whether or not the robber intended to abide by the promises he had just made to Arthur Vane; and, while we are on this subject, it may not be amiss to say, that the scheme Arthur had proposed, was one on which the robber had been meditating for many days.
During the time he had lived in the mountains, he had kept his brain busy, and had been allowed ample opportunity to decide upon his future operations.

He had been astonished and enraged at his failure to secure the twelve thousand dollars, and to make Frank Nelson a prisoner, and he had resolved to make amends for his defeat by capturing Frank and all his companions, including Arthur Vane.

Pierre had plenty of friends to assist him, but there was one question that troubled him, and presented an obstacle that he could see no way to overcome; and that was, how to capture all the boys at once.