But Bill says:
? ? ? ? "Hold on- 'd you go through him?"
? ? ? ? "No. Didn't you?"
? ? ? ? "No. So he's got his share o' the cash, yet."
? ? ? ? "Well, then, come along- no use to take truck and leave money."
? ? ? ? "Say- won't he suspicion what we're up to?"
? ? ? ? "Maybe he won't. But we got to have it anyway. Come along."
? ? ? ? So they got out and went in.
? ? ? ? The door slammed to, because it was on the careened side; and in a half second I was in the boat, and Jim come a tumbling after me. I out with my knife and cut the rope, and away we went!
? ? ? ? We didn't touch an oar, and we didn't speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe. We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddlebox, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.
? ? ? ? When we was three or four hundred yards down stream, we see the lantern show like a little spark at the texas door, for a second, and we knowed by that the rascals had missed their boat, and was beginning to understand that they was in just as much trouble, now, as Jim Turner was.
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