"Can't," she snapped back, "ain't such a thing as a saddle around here
any more. But I'm a country girl, you know, and I can ride bareback all
right. A halter's the only bridle I want, Frank. Give me the message,
and I'll see that it gets to somebody in Bloomsbury."
"And here's some money, Sallie," the other went on.
"What! do you think--"
"There might be something to pay, you know, and we can't afford to take
chances when there's so much at stake. Thank you a thousand times for
helping us out, Sallie. Now, please get the horse. I'd like to see you
started before we pull out, because we may have to chase after these
fellows in our aeroplane, if they take a notion to fly away."
The girl hastened to lead the way into the stable where they did find
an apology for a horse, which she immediately unhitched, and led
outside.
"Hope she doesn't happen to run across that man on the way, because he
might wonder what was taking her off like that, and do something to turn
her back. What if he found your message on her, Frank?" and Andy, as he
said this, turned an anxious gaze upon his cousin.
But Frank shook his head.
"I saw him dodge out of the lane and take to the woods," he remarked,
"as though he knew of a short-cut across lots to the place where his
friend and the biplane were hidden.
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