Harry Castlemon

“ Now all we've got to do is to arrest Matt and hunt up Jake. That boy's got six thousand dollars hidden somewhere in the woods."
"Why, hasn't that money been found yet?" exclaimed Roy.
"Not yet, and somehow we don't make out to get on Jake's trail. He hasn't been to Rube's house since the day we found your canvas canoe hidden under that pile of brush. He's hiding in the woods, living on what he can shoot and steal. I tell you the outlook is mighty dark for us guides. There's more than two hundred guests gone away since the Irvington bank was robbed, and half of us are idle. ”

“ I've got to get back as soon as I can, for there's plenty of work to be done at Indian Lake. The Irvington bank robbers have been captured, but Matt Coyle and his boys are still at large, and they'll ruinate our business and the hotels' business, too, if we don't tend to 'em right along."
While the guide was telling the boys how the robbers had been hunted down and captured, he took hold of the rope with which I was tied and lifted me out of his skiff into the sail-boat, and then he said good-by and pulled away, while the Young Republic came about and scudded back toward Mr. Wayring's wharf. ”

“ Swan has been here once an' done all the damage he could, an' 'tain't no ways likely that he'll come agin. Pap dassent come so fur from home, 'cause he's that scared of the constables that he sticks clost to the shanty all the time, an' don't even go huntin' for squirrels; so I reckon the woods about here are the best place I can find to hide my money. I'll leave my canoe, too. an' then, when I get ready to strike out for myself, I'll have him an' the money an' both them fine guns right where I can lay my hands onto 'em."
So saying Jake disappeared in the bushes, taking the valises with him. ”

“ If you take him up afore them guns is found he'll lose a dozen good customers next season, Hanson will, 'cause they say they'll never come back to his hotel till their property is given up to 'em. You don't want to be in too big a hurry. Both the boys has offered to give me the guns for half the reward, an' as soon as they tell me where they are hid I'll bring ' em up to the lake. Then you can 'rest Matt, as soon as you please. ”

“ It won't take us long to row up to that snag and see if the money is there. Four of us are enough. We will take one of the prisoners with us to show us right where the snag is, and the other can stay here. ”