It sure seemed too good to be true."
"But he may want the sentence carried out some time, if he
changes his mind. Maybe in a week or two he may take a notion
that " She stopped, plainly sobered by the fear that the good
news of his return might not be final.
"We won't cross that bridge till we come to it. You don't suppose
our friends are going to sit down and fold their hands, do you?
Not if I've got Mike O'Halloran and young Valdez sized up right.
Fur is going to begin to fly pretty soon in this man's country.
But it's up to us to help all we can, and I reckon we'll begin by
taking a preliminary survey of this wickiup."
Wickiup was distinctly good, since the word is used to apply to a
frail Indian hut, and this cell was nothing less than a tomb
built in the solid rock by blowing out a chamber with dynamite
and covering the front with a solid sheet of iron, into which a
door fitted. It did not take a very long investigation to prove
to Bucky that escape was impossible by any exit except the door,
which meant the same thing as impossible at all under present
conditions. Yet he did not yield to this opinion without going
over every inch of the walls many times to make sure that no
secret panel opened into a tunnel from the room.
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