A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 95: what you’re looking at

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+o a T\ | suey! i A LEAGUE OF THREE. oe “Not I; let a detective come.” A “Tf he docs you and I will go to jail, that’s all.” iq “We'll give him a good fight for it first.” “Not I, Madie; no use to fight detectives—two boys of q our build. They’ll down us so quick we will never kno what hit us. But did you see anything of the girl?” te No.” “Well, I don’t think she is there, from what you told f. 4 me. ‘The whole thing is a false lead and we are in a pretty pickle. The chances are we’ll go up the river. es “Not we.” + A “You don’t understand, Madie.” OS j “T°ll tell my story.” i, “Will you?” +e “Yes.” ‘y “And do you think they will believe it? No, no; and you made a fight with the two men. You committed an i assault on both of them after having forced your way into hi the house like a burglar. They will laugh at your tale.” “T can prove it.” “Can you?” a “T can.” 4 “It won’t do any good. They will claim yon are a bur- i glar, all the same, and now my advice is that we quit these | quarters for the present—fly the ranch until the thing blows over, if it ever does. They have got us both down | for a description.” “We were both under a disguise.” | I “That’s all right, but those detectives will go through our disguise easy enough.” Eyen while the lads were talking a footstep was heard on the stairs outside the room. ‘lhe lads had been in their room less than an hour. Voices were heard, and Patsy, his face pale, said: “Madie, we’re too late; they are here.” bo aa ites al mn icomicbooks:com