Of course they didn't! "And, then, another thing.

You haven't lost your wager! It never will be claimed, because you made it with a stout, dark, red-faced man who drives a bay and a gray.

He was right back of you, Mr.McLean, when I came yesterday.

He went deathly white and shook on his feet when he saw those men probably would be caught.

Some one of them was something to him, and you can just spot him for one of the men at the bottom of your troubles, and urging those younger fellows to steal from you.