"
"Don't worry about me," answered Ted; "I have plenty of that. I'll be
here when the snipe come down, and if any of them get away, charge them
to me."
After they had been gone some time Ted lit a match and looked at his
watch. It was a quarter to nine.
The Overland Express was due in Green River at nine-twenty. The little
red station of Polifax would foe passed by ten minutes after she left
Green River.
While he was in Green River that afternoon Ted had been very careful to
find the exact location of Bubbly Spring. He was more than two miles
from it in his blind to wait for the snipe.
As soon as the crashing of the feet of the snipe drivers and the shouts
and laughter had died away, Ted left his hiding place and darted through
the dark woods and swampy ground for Bubbly Spring.
Long before he got there he heard the long screech of the whistle of the
Overland Express announcing its approach at Green River, and a few
minutes later its whistle that it was on its way. He had just reached
Bubbly Spring and concealed himself in the bushes when the whistle gave
a long shriek of danger.
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