The Dugdale Millions — page 247: what you’re looking at

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PUZZLED CONSPIRATORS. 237 perhaps he can learn what is in the box from her, though Mrs. Stanton says she doesn’t know. Any- how he may get at something to show us how to go.” ‘“That’s a good suggestion,’’ said Orton Pierson, **I see no other course.’’ ‘“‘T’ll set out this very afternoon,’’ said Moore, *fand I’ll learn enough to know whether we are to go on or take to the woods.’’ “What are we going to do with these bloody boxes?’’ asked Ransom. ‘‘Send them back again by express,’’ said Moore. Ransom laughed incredulously. *‘I mean it,’’ said Moore. ‘“‘It will take any per- sonal reason out of this affair, Stanton may have for pursuing seriously the discovery of who committed the burglary.”’ **It is a good idea,’’ acquiesced Orton Pierson. *“Very well,’’ said Ransom, ‘‘they will go back. But isn’t this Mason piling things up pretty strong? He is the one who is doing the fighting.’”’ ‘*Yes,’’ said Bob, “‘he is the one, d him.”’ Ransom looked at the others significantly, but said nothing. Neither did the others. Moore broke the silence by saying to Bob: *‘Bob, you ought to get into communication with that woman Stanton.’’ *‘How can I until we know the ground we stand on?’’ asked Bob. ‘“‘It would be dangerous to go there now. And besides I have no excuse.”’ “She may have squealed on the whole affair,’’ said Ransom. ‘I don’t think she has,’’ said Orton Pierson. ‘“‘If she had the box wouldn’t be missing. It isn’t lhkely that anybody else went into that house that night. If It 1s missing, it is because she has got it in hiding. We can’t tell that, nor can we know, until she has been seen.”’ Ransom, looking to Bob, said: Comicloeo® <S CO 3}