Part 4 (1/2)
The third rider slowed up as he approached the spot where they awaited hi down on the allies; if they commenced to run on foot toward Rod and his chums it was only necessary to leap into their saddles and be off like the wind
”It worked like fresh grease, Rod!” panted Josh, as he threw hi side, for that boisterous laughter eakening him more or less; ”oh! they fell into your little trap like innocents It was like taking candy from the baby to work the their fists at us right now!” burst out Hanky Panky, as he pointed along the road toward the deserted house
”It's about all they can do; when you co cold feet e heard the, old fellow; and I hope none of the lead so much as touched you! I saw the dust fly up after nearly every shot, it seemed to me”
”I rather think the fellow meant to hit my wheel and disable it,”
explained the latest arrival; ”but it isn't so easy to do a thing like that, when aat the rate of a uess, and I gave him the slip”
”Rod here says you must have jammed his self-starter so it wouldn't hen he tried it; how about that, Josh?” asked Hanky Panky, who never would be satisfied until he had learned all the particulars
”You just bet that hat I did the first thing,” the other told him exultantly; ”but I had another card up ht haet a move on; but I fixed it so they'll not chase after us to-day”
”What did you do, then?” de knife all ready,” said Josh griht and main”
”On the tires, do you mean, Josh?”
”Every one of them is sliced and slashed the worst way you ever saw,”
replied the other ”I never was guilty of doing such abefore in all my life; but it was absolutely necessary if we ht to have heard the air sizzling out after I ja! Whee! it was , because I half expected to see one of theout any old second, and chase afterlike that happened”
Hanky Panky looked his deep admiration He often wished Nature hadstreak of Yankee blood in his veins Hanky illing to try to acco a bit clumsy in his actions there was always a chance that he would bungle his job, and fail to attain the expected results
He slapped the late actor in the stirring little drama heartily on the back
”Good boy, Josh!+” he went on to say; ”you're all wool, and a yard wide
Why, even Rod here couldn't have done a whit better There, see, the et a hed Rod; ”especially since we've accomplished all we meant to do, and their car is placed out of coain before we've played this ga, and the battle is on!
Until that ti the road leading to Ostend Rod had figured some time back that they would soon be across the border, and traversing French soil The last gli in the road and still staring hard after the vanishi+ng Motorcycle Boys
CHAPTER V
ON THE ROAD TO CALAIS
”What's this I see ahead there, boys? Looks like there ions, though I guess they've left their mounts behind”
It was Hanky Panky who said this They had halted at a wayside spring to refresh the pretty dusty
At noon the three boys had swung through Ostend on the Belgian coast