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"I ran away with the man I love," she answered, bravely. "It is a lie!" shrieked the Italian. Saxondale seized his hand in time to prevent the drawing of a revolver from his coat pocket. "'Damn you! This is a trick!" "You have Miss Garrison's word for it, your excellency. She was not abducted, and your search has been for naught," said the big Englishman. "There are no abductors here.
"I am ready to hear what you have to say," came at last from Miss Garrison. "It is not necessary to inform you that you were abducted " "Not in the least! The memory of the past two days is vivid enough," said Miss Garrison, with cutting irony in her voice. "But it may interest you to know the names of your abductors," said the other, calmly.
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After which they all proceeded to a comprehensive scouring of the many tortuous sidestreets of the quartier; but, needless to say, there was no sign of Carissimo or of his abductors. That night my lovely client went home distracted.
Patrols had guarded every road that the fugitives might take either to Lustadt, Blentz, or the border; but no king had been found and no trace of his abductors. Prince von der Tann, Barney was convinced, was on the point of deserting him, and going over to the other side.
His big, cheery voice comforted Patty, and her trouble suddenly seemed easier to bear, with his help near. "Oh, Little Billee," she cried, "Azalea has run off with Fleurette." "Good gracious, you don't say! But how much better to have Zaly do the kidnapping than some professional abductors! Hello, Elise, glad to see you! When did you arrive? This morning?" "No; this afternoon.
At that very moment, Loraine Tullis was comparing notes with Truxton King in the room beneath the armourer's shop; Count Marlanx was hiding in the trader's inn outside the northern gates; the abductors themselves were scattered about the city, laughing triumphantly over the success of the ruse that had drawn the well-feared American away on a wild-goose chase to the distant passes of Dawsbergen.
They might have been in that room before that evening. "At any rate, when the Boy Scout Camera Club started for West Virginia by way of Washington the friends of the abductors knew what was going on. Now, it is my opinion that the prince had been headed for the mountains before the conspirators became aware of our connection with the case." "I begin to see daylight!" Jack cried.
"I'm going back to the cave, and it may be just as well to have some one with me." Frank went down the slope to the tent and Ned and Jack hastened down the slope on the other side. They were busy with their thoughts and for a long time neither spoke. "Of course it is the abductors?" Jack asked, presently. "I have no doubt of it," was the reply.
"All out here and take the car ahead!" A door was opened, two of his captors got out, and Neil was politely invited to follow. He did so. Before him was the open door of a farm-house from which the light streamed hospitably. It was still drizzling, and Neil took shelter on the porch unchallenged; now that the abductors had got him some five miles from Centerport, they were not so attentive.
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