"We'll take care of 'em both.

You wait and see which one I take.

Then you take the other.
We'll handle 'em to the finish." This seemed like foolhardy talk when it was considered that the other two men would return armed.

But Harry had unlimited confidence in his friend, and so followed Tom, crouching, until they had hidden behind bushes along the trail.
"Where be you, Dolph ?" called the voice of Eb, as the pair drew near.
"He's over there," spoke Reade, springing out of the bushes.
"You'll join him after a bit." Neither Eb nor Josh was armed.

Tom sailed into Eb, while Harry sprang at Josh.