A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 59: what you’re looking at

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. Pv = . Was i e " ‘ ‘ * “?, 4 : ..' i i o A LEAGUE OF THREE. “Yes.” | “Then you will have to learn the science of transforms.” “ What’s that—disgnuises?” “Yes, you bet.” “JT have been thinking of that. We can go under cover, as they call it, later on.” “That ain’t my idea.” “What is your idea?” “Go under cover from the start; then as you uncover your disguise is more perfect. You see, when you go under cover you don’t act natural like, and when you doff the cover you come down to your natural gait. Now, if the get on to vou at your natural gait they can follow you under cover; but if you go the disguise and then come the natural gait they ain’t so likely to get on to a pointer to trail you on. I tell you it’s the right game to go the dis- guise first and work the ‘cover’ as long as you can. You can always fallback to the natural.” “Patsy, you’re right. What disguise shall I work?” “The countryman, if well played, is always a good one.” “T should do that well, for I am a countryman.” “All right; don’t make any mistake. I’ve seen some of these countrymen who were immense in every way; it’s a good disguise. Come the western man on ’em—that’s the tune. You will have lots of fun and pick up a good deal that you ain’t looking for. Yes, that’s your ‘rig.’” ‘he two lads spent the following three days in making ‘up their “rigs,” as Patsy called their disguises, and our hero found the Irish-American New York gamin of great service to him. His suggestions were all excellent and be- trayed a wonderful knowledge of human nature; indeed his shrewdness was so marked Madie was led to exclaim We: “T don’t see, Patsy, how any of them could ever have ealled you crazy ” Patsy laughed in his peculiar manner and answered: a « de. a ie 57 é i . 6 , * ' x ty