A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 13: what you’re looking at

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one a. fF 2 i Ue J on Wom A LEAGUE OF THREE. a — ——- arlo, the dog, who had accompanied he oys so often ever brake and lake for days and days successively. He k t a then embraced his two companions, and then wit _ tears in & his eyes said: Dp | “Pete and Lud, my friends, good-by. We'll meet again, _ hope, and if we do the fate of Addie will be known. If © | , .fail I die; if I win woe to any one who has done her Mt harm ;” and his two friends of the league repeated: a _ “Yes, woe to any one who has done her wrong.” | The boys indulged in a final hand-shake and Madie started | off through the woods, refusing to let his companions a S | company him on the way, and as he disappeared he naka gringing in his ears the refrain: ‘i “We wiil bo true to each other until death. We swear, | we swear.” f ; aa | ' re , § a a > —_ J > Po * ime ti 4 - ¥ e CHAPTER II. MADIE’S ADVENTURE WITH TWO TRAMPS. ~ r) a tramp to New York, nor did there ever live a lad c | | = ty A MORE resolute lad than Madie Heat] ie Se more dogged courage and coolness in trying moments. | ee i Ye will not say there are not lads just as brave al d cool ’ F he; what we do say is that there never lived a lad with ; ¥ i greater courage and persistence. Madie loved Addie and i yet he had never spoken one word of love to her; he had a? never hinted more than friendship. She was but a child, a as it were, and he was a mere youth. No doubt he had all along indulged a hope some day, when he had made Ns a success, that he might talk love to her, but even | the time when she depart d for New York and they had made