place, too," he said then, "Look, Jack! There's probably a break
not far from here,"

"Right, oh!" said Jack. "Now we must be careful. I've just
thought, Dick, that they might have left someone to watch at the
place where they cut the wire."

"Why, Jack?"

"Well, they might have thought we, or someone else, might come
along to find out about it, just as we're doing. I'm beginning to
think those beggars are mightily clever, and that if they think of
doing anything, they're likely to think that we'll think of it.
They've outwitted us at every point so far,"

So now, instead of staying under the hedge, but still in the road,
they crept through a gap in the hedge, tearing their clothes as
they did so, since it was a blackberry row, and went along still
in sight of the poles and the wire, but protected by the hedge so
that no one in the road could see them.

"There!" said Jack, at last. "See? You were right, Dick. There's
the place -- and the wire was cut, too! It wasn't an accident.
But I was sure of that as soon as I found the line wasn't
working."

Sure enough, the wires were dangling. And there was something
else. Just as they stopped they heard the voices of two men.

"There's the break, Bill," said the first voice. "Bli'me, if she