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114 waving his arms. The wagon stopped, and Bob saw that it held the marshal, and three other men, and Sammy.

"Where are those men, Bob?" asked the marshal, quickly.

Bob told enough to give the officer an idea of how things stood. The marshal drove the wagon up to the side of the road, and then he and two of the men who had come in the wagon started out to scour the woods.

Bob told Frank and Sammy about the two satchels being gone when he ran around the schoolhouse corner. They at once began a search all about the place and even out to the ditch, but found no trace of the valises.

"See here, Bob," said Frank, "maybe the man threw them into the ditch, jumped after them, and got away with them?"

"I hardly think that," replied Bob. "He didn't have them with him the last sight I had of him."

The boys had a long wait of it. It was over an hour before one of the men came back.

"We've beat the woods in every direction," he told them. "The marshal and his aid have kept up the hunt. We're to go back and start some more men on the chase."

Up to the time, two hours later, that Bob, Frank and Sammy stayed up, no trace was found of the jewelry store robbers.