"Let's go."
CHAPTER V
PLANS FOR THE FLIGHT
The boys needed no second bidding. Out of the door, down the
passageway, and out of the house, they dashed. Then they headed across
an intervening stretch of lawn for the radiophone station, concealed
from sight by a clump of trees. Mindful of Mr. Temple's admonition not
to rush into danger without him, they checked their pace. But the
older man was making good time himself.
Through the woods they dashed, emerging within sight of the door of
the power house. There stood Tom Barnum unharmed, revolver in hand. At
the noise of their approach, he swung about abruptly, bringing up his
revolver in doing so. Mr. Temple and the boys shouted, and he dropped
the threatening weapon again to his side.
"Thought they were comin' back," he said.
"What happened, Tom?" queried Mr. Temple, as they surrounded the
watchman-mechanic in charge of the Hampton radiophone station with
whom they had pursued a thief fleeing from the Hampton home only a
short time before.
"Well, sir, when we come back from chasin' them fellers in the motor
car," Tom explained, "I stopped at your back door a minute to chin
Mary an' tell her the news. She wanted to know what all the excitement
was about.
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