A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 117: what you’re looking at

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; , id - “No, 1 won’t.” The girl did not move, but on the contrary she said in an excited tone: | ** Please don’t fight. ‘i “T must punish this rascal,” said the dude, and he let iy his right. Well, a lively scene followed. ‘The three dudes went down like paper men; Madie got around in their midst like a young cyclone. Ue knocked them down in quick succession; to him it was an easy job, and as Hae fell he kicked chew and actually kept up his kicking a the three fellows rolled over and over to get out of “his ig “way, and as one after the other gained his feet, he ran off like a frightened deer and our hero returned to the giri who strangely enough, had stood still during the whole exciting scene, and as our hero approached, to his wild amazement and bewilderment, My girl sald : “Well, Madie, you always were a young Hercules, but how is it I meet you here in Boston ?” Madie felt as though he would fall over with astonish- ment, and so great was his amazement he could not speak, while the girl raised her veil and asked: “Don’t you know me, Madie?” “ Addie, by all that’s bande and wonderful, is it you?” “Yes, Madie, 1t’s your old friend Addie.” “ And how is it, Addie, I meet you in Boston after mid- night alone in the streets? Speak quick, tell me. Ob, Addie, Addie,” almost wailed Madie, “what has hap- pened?” ia “T have been a foolish girl, Madie.” Madie felt that he should die; his heart appeared te swell in his bosom, to too great a size to permit of its throbbing. “Yon have been a foolish girl, Addie,” he repeated in a husky voice. The girl appeared to diseern his terrible apprehensions — and she at once said: i -_ on a