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"We've got to figure out some way of getting word to town," exclaimed
Bert fiercely. "There must be some way, if we could only think of it.
I have it!" he shouted. "Listen! The new branch they've been putting
through from the railroad is almost completed, and a foreman I was
speaking to a few days ago said they had almost finished stringing the
telegraph wires. They're probably up by now, and if I could only get to
them I'd have help here in no time!"
"By all that's holy, the lad's right," exclaimed Buck, "an' it ain't far
from here neither, considerin' jest the distance."
"But the chances are you'd never reach the railroad, Bert," said Dick
anxiously; "they'd wing you before you got anywhere near it."
"I'll have to take a chance on that," responded Bert. "Besides, if I
don't go our condition is hopeless, anyhow, so I might as well attempt
it."
The two Westerners nodded their heads at this, and Buck said: "O' course,
it's only a ragged chance, but it might go through at that. The best
thing will be for him to make the try the first second after dark.
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