They come back.

I hid me in there." "H'm! Why didn't you come by way of the tunnel, like the other Caesars ?" "Pop tol me not to.

Sent me ahead.

Said mebbe they moughtn't git in here if the doors was locked early.

Tol' me to hide me in the house an' let 'em in, late, ef they-all couldn't git in no earlier, or ef they couldn't cotch one of the two cusses outside the house." "Good strategy!" approved Brice.