They may drop down here by either fork any time, day or night." He spoke briefly also to Mary Gage before he handed her in at the door of her new domicile: "Sim and Wid both think that only one car went back up the road above the ranch.

That means that the other car is up in the mountains between the Two Forks, probably in the Reserve.

For a time there probably won't anything happen.

You mustn't be scared--we're just taking the proper precautions now.

This is very valuable Government property." "Are we at the dam here ?" asked Mary Gage.