"And ze
way from ze rivair shall be well guarded from now on," he added.
CHAPTER XIX
WHAT HAPPENED TO TOM AND SAM
Let us return to Tom and Sam, at the time they were left alone at
Binoto's hostelry.
"I wish we had gone with Dick and Uncle Randolph," said Tom, as he
slipped into his coat and shoes. "I don't like this thing at
all."
"Oh, don't get scared before you are hurt, Tom!" laughed his
younger brother. "These people out here may be peculiar, but --"
Sam did not finish. A loud call from the woods had reached his
ears, and in alarm he too began to dress, at the same time
reaching for his pistol and the money belt which Randolph Rover
had left behind.
"I -- I guess something is wrong," he went on, after a pause. "If
we -"
"Tom! Sam! look out fo' yourselves!" came from Aleck, and in a
second more the negro, burst on their view. "Come, if yo' is
dressed!" he added.
"Where to?" asked Tom hurriedly.
"Anywhar, Massah Tom. De others is took prisoners! Come!" And
Aleck almost dragged the boy along.
The Rover boys could readily surmise that Aleck would not act in
this highly excited manner unless there was good cause for it.
Consequently, as Sam said afterward, "They didn't stand on the
order of their going, but just flew." Pell-mell out of the
hostelry they tumbled, and ran up the highway as rapidly as their
nimble limbs would permit.
They heard several men coming after them, and heard the command
"Halt!" yelled after them in both French and bad English.
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