"
"And we ain't goin' to get nothing?"
"No!" said Jack in a tone of decision.
"You may get what you don't want, though I won't say but that you
deserve it all right," laughed Percival "I mean a term in jail."
"And so this was what you sent to us for?" said Jack. "You might
have known you would get nothing. Come, Dick. Come, Billy. There
is no use wasting any more time on these fellows."
"You look out that we don't go on our own hook and stop your workin'
the branch," snarled Calthorpe. "We can make trouble for you
and we-----"
"Herring cannot have paid them anything for what they did," remarked
Percival as they walked back toward the middle of the camp. "That
is like him, to promise them something for a service and then forget
all about it. I don't believe he ever intended to pay them."
"That's nothing new for Pete," said Billy. "The man or boy who
relies on that fellow keeping his word is going to get left."
The work was resumed the next morning and progressed rapidly, many
of the boys from the camp who were not of the surveying party coming
to see how things were getting on.
Then, greatly to the disgust of the Hilltoppers, Peter Herring
and some of his cronies came along and stopped to watch the surveyors.
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