What say you ?" Anderson was ready and eager to agree to anything, but he hesitated a long time before concluding to take supreme charge of the undertaking.
Mr.Gregory at once implored him to take command.

It meant the success of the venture; anything else meant failure.
"But how'n thunder am I to know the robbers when I see 'em ?" demanded the marshal, nervously pulling bluegrass up by the roots.
"You'll know 'em all right," said Andrew Gregory.

Thursday came and with it the "troupe." Anderson Crow had not slept for three nights, he was so full of thrills and responsibility.

Bright and early that morning he was on the lookout for suspicious characters.

Gregory was to meet the detectives from New York at half-past seven in the evening.