"If he was the leader of the gang, his burns
will keep him in the hospital and out of mischief for some time to come."
"You didn't hear what happened this afternoon then?" asked his father.
"No, what?" demanded Bob and Hugh in one breath.
"You remember the railroad bridge, don't you?"
"I guess we'll never forget that, will we, Hugh?" exclaimed Bob. "You
don't mean that they tried to blow it up again?"
"Well, it looks so," said Mr. Cook. "One of the guards on the bridge this
afternoon saw a man coming down the river in a rowboat. He called to him
to halt, but the man kept right on. The guard challenged him three times,
but as the man gave no answer he fired at him."
"Did he kill him?" demanded Bob excitedly.
"No," said Mr. Cook, "he didn't try to kill him. He just wanted to scare
him, and when he fired the man jumped out of the boat into the water. The
guard hurried down to the bank of the river, but the man had scrambled
ashore and run off; you know it's quite a long distance from where the
railroad tracks cross the bridge down to the water.
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