There was now no doubt whatever of the criminal nature of their bold enterprise.

For surely no law-abiding, civilized beings lived in such a remote wilderness as now closed them in.
Soon the car came to a stop, and Pee-wee's thumping heart almost came to a stop at the same time.

Suppose they should lift the robe?
What would they do?
And quite as much to the point, what should _he_ do?
A sudden impulse to throw off his kindly camouflage and run for all he was worth, seized him.

But he thought of those seventy pistols and two blackjacks and refrained.

Should he face them boldly, like the hero in a story book and say, "Ha, ha, you are foiled.