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DIAMOND DICK JR. OUT OF SIGHT 17 “Then don’t sign, no matter what hap- pens.’?’ “IT won’t, if they kill me!” some further talk along that line, then Bertie wrote: ‘You are might pretty, and I with I could console you at a little closer tange.’’ He could see her blush as she read it, and she laughed again. ‘Well, I would not object,’’? she wrote back. ‘‘I wish you could get here, for I wil not deny that Iam afraid. I was in terror before you came.”? “Tf I join you will you give mea kiss ?”? Bertie wrote boldly. ‘Ves, two of thein, sponded. It seeined perfectly safe to enjoy a little flirtation under such circumstances. The chances of diis getting there seemed very remote indeed, just then, and it seeined safe for her to promise alinost any- thing. And, indeed, Bertie himself had no idea that he would be able to doso, for he argued that his captors considered hiin peifectiy secure where he was or they would not have left him alone. But that remained to be seen. Any- how, Bertie had accomplished something ; he had found the young woman and learned her name and why she had been brought there, and if he could escape he had enough information to make it warm for soinebody. ’* she promptly re- CHAPTER V. HANDSOME HARRY, THE MASCOT AND ANOTHER. ‘‘Glee-ory to snakes an’ General Jack- son! A tillygraff from my leetle pardner, son of his dad? Wake up snakes, an’ read ther news!”? ‘‘Alle samee that light, Hally. Boy jist fetchee him to hotel, allee samee me fetchee him to you double quickee you bettee. Hully up, findee out what he say !”” “All right, yaller, all right, all right; jist hold yerself in yer sandals till I kin tear et open. Hyer we haveet, now; cock yer ears and listen fer all ye aite worth, ter wit, as follows: ‘* “Handsome Harry: ‘* “Come by first train to Humphryes’ Hermitage and ask conductor to let you off, Going to pay a visit to the mad imil- lionaire. ‘**Diainond Dick, Jr’?? . “Hi-yi! Hally!” ‘“Ther doose we will!” Handsome Harry, the giant Serpent of Siskiyou, and Hop Wah, the Mascot, his little Chinese partner. They had been at this place for a day or two, awaiting the coming of their chief, Diamond Dick, Jr.; and now had coine the telegram as tead by Harry, call- ing them away. ‘‘Alle samee why not?” the Mascot de- manded, with great surprise. ‘‘You bet- tel mind what boss say, else gitteee dam head knockee off when him ketchee you, bet life! Allee samee what leason not go, want to know.” ‘And who said I wasn’t goin’? Glee- ory to snakes! Who said I wasn’t go- in???? We go there, you bettee hat, ‘*Allee samee you say so. go; you say doose we will.”” ‘“°Phat’s right; glee-ory to snakes, et is so! I say et again; ther doose we will! Does this hyer tillygraff say anything about you, yaller? Come, now, does et? Me say we Say !”? “Oh! allee samee you too smart, Hally. Don’t git comical, now, else me have to takee fall out of you to bling you to time. When Diamond Dick, Juny, say come, he meanee me too, evely time, you bettee popguns!”’ ‘Ve think he does, hey ?”? ‘‘Allee samee me know he does. gittee long without Hop Wah!” ‘“Wull, I opine you aire right, yaller, Idoso. I was only jokin’, of course. We'll go thar, bet yer life!’’ ‘‘Allee samee to bad Hans not with us; me missee hin bely much, Hally. Wish his ‘lations stay way and mindee owr business, not coinee lookee him up and takee him off.”” ‘‘Glee-ory to snakes, sodoI! He didn’t amount to a whole lot, even if thar was a good deal of him, Mascot; but I had a soft place in my heart fer the Two-Cent Kid all ther same, I didso. Ef we wur COMmiiclooe No S CO