We're lucky if we get away."
The three men rose to their feet, held a few moments' talk and then
scattered. Each man determined to make his way to the city on his own
hook, and they considered it was possibly by hook or by crook that they
would get there.
Oscar and Cad had disappeared. Indeed, the rogues had hardly dared look
at each other or speak until the "singulars" had gotten out of sight.
Once well away Oscar said:
"All right, Cad, I must leave you now to shift for yourself awhile. I am
going to finish up this business. We know where to meet."
"Yes."
They were standing in a hollow between two sandbanks and it was dark.
"Change," said Oscar.
Immediately there followed a most wonderful transformation. Cad Metti
dropped her fine feathers as though by magic, and in her stead appeared
a plain-looking country girl, while the dude vanished, and in his stead
appeared a regular sporting appearing young fellow. No one would have
recognized in either the two who had sat on the piazza of the hotel
eating their dinner and cooing like two turtle-doves.
"Well done," said Oscar as he gazed at the wonderful girl, Cad Metti,
and an instant later he said:
"Now I will leave you. I must get on the track of those scoundrels."
Cad and Oscar did not stop to exchange farewells.
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