They are down in front at one
side and their figures are larger than---why, Billy, they are
Jenkins and Herring."
"Exactly!" said Billy with a deal of satisfaction. "I thought you'd
see them if I said nothing and I'm glad you found them yourself.
I am going to have a print of that plate as soon as it gets dry
enough. I can dry it by a little stove I have and then take a
bromide print of it in soft grays. That will fetch it up all right."
"But, Billy, what are Herring and Jim Jenkins doing together and
what are they so interested about?"
"Didn't Jenkins say that a boy wearing the uniform of the Hilltops
had told him and the rest that running the branch would hurt them?"
"This picture shows that Herring had something to do with Jenkins
and yet everybody supposed he was in Saratoga."
"That's Herring all right and that's Jenkins," said Billy. "I'll
dry the plate and take a print of it. It won't hurt anything
to have a light now as I have no undeveloped plates about."
Billy then raised the red glass of the lantern to the top and
shoved a plain one under it, and then, lighting a little oil stove,
proceeded to carefully dry his plates, presently standing them
up not too near the stove and getting out his printing frames
and a package of photographic paper done up in a thick sheet of
heavy black paper which excluded the light.
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