"Wren, do you know that you are
a very bad young lady?"
"I'd do anything for you. You're so good and kind to me," said the
child, as she rapidly cut the ropes.
For a time the boys, after being freed, just lay there, unable to move.
But after a while circulation set in and they began to move their limbs.
In half an hour the trio crept out of the tent and, crossing the
"island," traversed the trunk bridge.
"Wait a minute," said Roy, when they reached the other side.
"What are you going to do?"
"Make that whole outfit prisoners till the officers of the law can get
up here."
He took a broken branch as a lever and with Jimsy's assistance toppled
the log down into the canon.
"Now I guess they'll stay put for a while," he said.
And they did. That was why, when a posse came up to capture the band,
they carried materials for building a bridge across the canon. It may
as well be said here that the band received heavy sentences, it being
proved at their trial that they had made a practice of kidnapping
children and then trying to collect ransoms for them.
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