along, but mother said they hadn’t.  The very moment that she said that, the two persons in question were outside listening.  They had heard the telephone-bell ring + thought that it might be us.  When they heard that remark, they hurried down and soon joined us.
     It seems that they had gone first down Ellsworth and they south, while we went north.  We went out on the porch to view the country but could see no one.  However it took us one whole hour to get up enough courage to go home.  First one and then another would bring forth the theory that the gang was surely lying in wait somewhere.  But, it being eleven o’clock, we finally got desperate and went home.
     Nothing happened.
     And so we had failed to put