An' ye ain't goin' to run no railroad, nuther!"
Jack looked around and quickly discovered that young Smith was
missing, and at once came to the conclusion that he had gone off
to get the doctor so as to settle the dispute about the surveying.
"If you will wait till we can send for Dr. Wise," he said to the
men, "he will assure you that we have every right to make the
survey, as well as to build the road. Will you send some one, Dick?"
"I will go," said Kenneth Blaisdell, who was one of Percival's party.
"All right, Ken, go ahead," and the boy set off through the woods,
Jack noticing at the same time that two of the men slipped away
with the evident intention of waylaying him and preventing him from
delivering the message to the doctor.
"I suspected as much," he thought. "Well, they don't know that young
J.W. has already started. He will get through all right, for although
he's little, he can be depended upon."
Then Jack gave Percival a wink and stepped back a little.
CHAPTER XX
GETTING AT THE BOTTOM OF THINGS
"What is it, Jack?" asked Percival as he joined Jack a short distance
from the group of men now standing idly about.
"They have sent some one to intercept Blaisdell. I have already sent
young Smith, or at least he has taken the hint and gone off himself.
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