But we ain't here."
"Where will we be?"
"Comin' up on them from behind."
"That's the stuff. Notify the boys at once. We'll get behind the house
and creep up on them through the grass. We'll fool them at their own
game."
As silently as ghosts the broncho boys deserted the living room and went
to the back door. After carefully reconnoitering the situation without,
Ted softly opened the door, and led the boys into the shadow of the
house, and they crept away through the tall grass.
Only Frederic Caruthers and Stella and the Japanese girl remained in the
house.
Skirting the house grounds, the boys were soon out on the prairie,
giving their enemies a wide berth.
Raising his head slightly from behind a tuft of grass, Ted took stock of
the position of the enemy.
In the shadow of the house beneath the windows of the living room he
could see the still darker shadows of the Gray Wolves.
Leading the boys into a semicircle from which at a word of command they
could rush the house, Ted passed this word along the line:
"If they enter the house, as they probably will, we will close in
quietly, rush the house, and capture them inside. Let none of them
escape, and make no noise."
They had not many minutes to wait before the Gray Wolves began to get
uneasy.
Evidently they expected some movement within the house, and the
continued silence puzzled them.
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