"But I'll wager that these smart scoundrels didn't forget to cut the wire before springing the raid." For the first two or three minutes Harry's, slower moving mind hardly grasped more than the fact that their enemies appeared to have won a complete triumph.
"There isn't much doubt as to what they'll do with us," thought Hazelton, with a slight shudder.

"These rascals will move too fast for pursuit to overtake them early.

What they in intend to do with us can be done in a very few minutes." Neither young engineer really expected to live to see daylight.

From the first, after having incurred the anger of a certain lawless element in Paloma, the young engineers had understood fully that threats of lynching them had not been idly made.
"There'll be a stir, though," Tom Reade muttered to himself.

"The A.G.
& N.M.officials won't let this crime go by without a determined effort to bring the offenders to justice.