His threats, however, were no more effective at breaking down their
silence than were his questions.
Bob remained at the doorway to avoid the risk of recognition by
Morales and Von Arnheim as the youth who had foiled their attempt to
steal Mr. Hampton's papers from his Long Island home. Jack, who had no
means of knowing how much the traitor, Rollins, might have told Von
Arnheim in the past about Mr. Hampton's personal affairs, watched
keenly for some indication on the German's part that he had formed an
idea as to their identity, but none was forthcoming.
Jack was correspondingly elated.
"I suppose," he said to Frank, after Morales and Von Arnheim had been
fed and returned to the other side of the cave, "that Rollins never
bothered to speak about us because we were just boys. Then, too, you
fellows arrived only the very day that we discovered Rollins's
treachery and put a stop to his communications with these people."
"That may all be true," said Frank. "Probably it is. Just the same,
Von Arnheim and Morales are bound to put two and two together and make
a shrewd guess as to our identities, even if they say nothing to us
about the matter.
"But," he added, confidently, "what if they do? We have them prisoners
now and if we keep them well guarded until we have rescued your
father, what does it matter how much they know?"
Jack nodded agreement.
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