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for which he might at any moment have - need in his business. = plied ¢ to piaainary custamers. sup- 8 _ Having left the professor in the little _ shed by the railroad tracks, Trim hur- | 1 all speed to the Summit House. making up he had been think- versation he had heard, | hough there was much about it : he could not wholly understand | here was enovge to show that not only | ng ‘Just how they eect to nhotit: by kill- | : > son is more than I can see,’’ SShought Trim, as he ran on, ‘‘but there’s| no doubt that that’s what they’re up to. ‘It couldn’t have meant anything else Re Ea the banker and Duke undertook to look | after the kid. it undoubtedly that “yet a while, but young ‘Edward ‘ony: in danger every minute. “It would be too bad if I shouldn’t) get to the hotel ah _ prevent the murder of the boy. a HJ think shall manage it for if Duke) " -_ around by the eacth, i ca short cut.” At this moment Trim r ee d le mad be hill and saw tl S He hope that if Duke had already wits ee : a Rica Tf. ) L /. ak i Jt , . 7 , 7 ane alll ; a ) , | ; : | | | ‘ . « “ . |= ~~, ‘ - . , 7 P | : 7 | = | | c dj = ~ = - * OO ° - i 3 would be able to carry the many articles : e \came to the lower end of the plank walk; ee AM the detective’ Ss suits were made swith a great emmayber: at pigs many midnight, in fact, and few persons were part of the hotel were dark, showing that ~ when the professor agreed to attend to) | Mead ead ‘ra son were to be killed ie | of Duke and so Tamme and goes PI take him a aed tone. get to the hotel whilé I’m taking | | nded a | shoul- Nianda.”? anging | who wants some le eos | wouder how much Tt can tell him that he 23 res until he and chroigh a group of cotta; then he went up just as if he were return- ing from a stroll upon the beach It was late in the evening chen: nearly ‘stirring. Three or four men were smoking in chairs upon the Summit House veranda and a few others were idling in the hotel office. Nearly all the windows in the upper the guests had gone to bed, but Trim ‘noticed that there was a light in the room next to the c one from which he had taken Vi Edward 1’s room,’’ he “Can it be that s young Paalet.: with a start. | Duke has got there ahead of me and is even now committing murder? “T shall be dreadfully sorry if that’s the case, but if it is, I'l be sure to catch ithe murderer.” He mastentd his pace and fairly jumped |up the steps leading to the veranda. As be: came to the top he was consid- ro-|erably surprised to” see young Edward ‘Mead rise from a chair in ‘the office and . | approach him. ‘‘T thought you’d never come back, | professor, * said the young man. “Dye been waiting for you a long time.’’ “And I. thought you were asleep, |Ned,’’ returned Trim, imitating Spin- ner’s voice. “Oh, rats!’ in a low retorted Ned, He added immediately afterward more ‘loudly: “T couldn’t sleep and so I ‘could tell me something more about the stars. It’s such a clear night that we can isee them fine from the end of the ver- “Well,” thought Trim, ‘‘I’ve got to Ibe a professor in earnest! Here’s a pupil 2SSoT1s /in astronoIrr y I ‘thought I'd wait for you so "that you