CHAPTER VII

A Vain Pursuit There was a startled exclamation from Jake, for the sudden light almost blinded him. The next moment he got out of its range and plunged behind the bushes. Don leaped from the car and started in pursuit. He was swift of foot, and in daylight would have had no trouble in running down his clumsy quarry. But beyond the bushes was a patch of woodland, and it was into this that Jake ran. Don followed, but he had to slacken speed in the darkness, because of the danger of dashing against a tree trunk. He we…