CHAPTER XXIV 

A NEW ARRIVAL 

After the disappearance of Jarley Bangs the Rover boys and their chums continued their trip on horseback. 

"Let's move over the hill in the direction of the Bimbel ranch," suggested Spouter. "I'd like to get a bird's-eye view of that outfit." 

"Perhaps we had better not go too close," advised Fred. "Bimbel may be getting out a shotgun for us." 

"I guess it isn't as bad as all that, Fred. Those things might have happened years ago when the country was more sparsely settled and when there were more bad men around. I don't take much stock in what Bangs said. Probably he and Bimbel have quarreled. He struck me as being a man who could get into a dispute very easily." 

"Oh, I was only fooling," answered Fred. "I wouldn't be afraid to ride right up to his door. That is, in the daytime. Of course, if we did it at night he might become suspicious." 

"Say, do you fellows know that it's five minutes to twelve?" questioned Andy, after consulting his watch. "I move that we keep our eyes open for some place where we can take it easy and have lunch." 

"And I second the commotion," returned his brother, joking in a way their father had made familiar to them. 

The boys rode on for half an hour longer, and then reached the top of the hill they were ascending. Here they could look a long distance in all directions. 

"Some view, I'll say," declared Jack, as he surveyed the panorama. "What a picture for an artist to paint!" and he pointed to the majestic mountains to the westward. 
Who thought they shouldn't get too close to the Bimbel ranch? What was he worried about? What time was it? What did Andy want them to watch for? Who agreed with him? How much longer before they reach the top of a hill? What could they do there? Who thought it was a view worth painting? Which direction did he point? Towards what? Who had disappeared? Who wanted to get a better look at the Bimbel place? When would there have been a better chance of someone pulling a gun on them? Were there more or less people in the region back then? More or less dangerous men? Was Bangs a believable guy? What may have happened between him and Bimbel? Who seem like someone who could get into an argument easily? Was Fred really afraid of Bimbel? Who has a way about him that was like his father?
Fred that he may be getting out a shotgun five minutes to twelve a place to take it easy and have lunch his brother half an hour look a long distance in all directions Jack westward the majestic mountains Jarley Bangs Spouter years ago less more no Probably quarreled Bangs no Andy's brother