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"What do you want?" "Nothing, Dudder, excepting to pass." "Huh! You needn't look so innocent-like, Shep Reed! We know what you did to our boat," put in Dick Bush. "What did we do to it?" asked Whopper. "You know well enough. Think you're smart, don't you?" growled Carl. "We know what you were going to do to our boat," put in Snap. "What?" "You heard what I said.

"Do you suppose we are going to tell you?" demanded another boy, a lad named Carl Dudder. "Not much! We don't want you to come sneaking after us, to shoot the game that we stir up." "We never sneaked after you," cried Snap rather indignantly. "And we have always been able to stir up our own game." "Bah! I know better." "Of course they have taken our game -more than once," came from Ham Spink.

All the boys were invited to "hang on the Dudder fence" and see them set off that evening at nine o'clock. "Now is the time for us to do something," said Snap to his chums, a little later. The evening before they had visited the Dudder barn but had failed to locate the fireworks. "That's right," said Giant. "The fireworks are there now -I saw Carl and Ham bringing them from the express office."

"All right then, I won't say a word," answered the tramp, and a set look came over his somewhat besotted face. He realized that he was in a serious situation and made up his mind that Ham Spink and Carl Dudder must help him out of it. He knew the two boys were well-to-do and reasoned that their parents would do almost anything to keep their sons out of jail.

Their camp had been "rough-housed" to the last degree, and many things had been utterly ruined, while other articles were missing. They were sure that Shep and his chums were guilty of the crime. "You are all wrong," cried Snap. "We haven't been near your camp." "That's the truth," added Shep. "I don't believe it," cried Carl Dudder.

"Yes, but you seem to have forgotten that we about kept you from starving to death," answered Snap calmly. "And that's no joke," came softly from Giant. "You keep your oar out, little one," grunted Dudder, turning to glare at Will. "You and your crowd acted very meanly last summer and you know it, Dudder," said Giant, not in the least abashed.

Kiddy Leech had been sitting on the bench less than quarter of an hour when he saw several boys coming along the frozen river on their skates. He looked at them indifferently at first, but soon became interested in two of the number. These boys were Ham Spink and Carl Dudder. The third youth was Barney Hedge, one of Spink's cronies. "The same boys!" muttered the tramp to himself.

"They say they know you knocked Andrew Felps down," went on Dudder, finding some consolation in the fact that Ham was in difficulties too. "They didn't see a thing!" roared the dudish youth. "Well, that is what they say." "Humph! Carl, they are bound to get us into trouble." "Of course. They haven't got over last summer's trouble yet. I suppose they will make it as hot for us as they can."

Leaving the negro in charge of Whopper, Ham Spink and Carl Dudder, Snap ran up to the house. "Is Mr. Lundy in?" he asked of Mrs. Lundy, who answered his summons at the door. "Simon! Somebody wants to see you!" said the woman. "What's wanted?" asked the miserly farmer, coming forward. "We have caught that thief, Mr. Lundy." "Do tell!" burst out Mrs. Lundy.

"Well, you can't blame it on me," retorted Carl Dudder. "Maybe it was Ham Spink's plan," suggested Whopper. "It was." "And what did you do?" "Hid your stuff on you," said Dick Bush, in a low tone. "Anything else?" "Well, we -er -we took a little meat and had some dinner while we were over there."