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Updated: June 3, 2025
If they were to remain long in that section, it was quite necessary, he thought, that the natives should understand that the boys of the Camera Club were not there to spy on counterfeiters or the moonshiners, if any there were in that region.
Sitting on the level space half way down to the outcropping ledge which held the workroom of the counterfeiters, Bradley looked anxiously in the direction of the canyon. Jimmie noted the look and took out his field glass. People were moving about in the canyon, and down in the valley to the south, where the cabin stood, something out of the ordinary seemed to be going on.
The edifice was composed of a basement of squared logs, perforated here and there with small grated windows, through which a few wistful faces were gazing at the crowd without. Among the captives were the guilty, downcast countenances of the counterfeiters, and the simple but honest features of the Leather-Stocking.
"Why, you have been promising that you would put on one of Shakespeare's plays, and give me a chance in Hamlet, and here you go and cast me for one of a gang of counterfeiters. I have to wear a black mask. The public will not know that it is Wellington Bunn playing."
"No one will even admit that there is a prince in the case." When the boys came to the vicinity of the summit, south of a point in line with the camp and the canyon where the counterfeiters had been discovered, they stopped and took a good survey of the landscape. "We can probably learn more about what has been going on," Jack suggested, "by hiking straight for the camp.
But even after all this care and all these safeguards many skillfully executed counterfeits and raised and altered bank notes have been made and issued, some of them so good as to deceive the most expert judges of money. Many devices have been resorted to by counterfeiters to raise genuine bank-notes, as well as to manufacture bogus ones, but one of the most novel has recently come to light.
So he told her that the boys had blundered on the workroom of the counterfeiters, had been suspected of being spies sent by the government and seized, and finally had been released by strategy. He added that they were not there to molest the people of the district, whatever their occupation might be, but to take pictures and have a long vacation in the health-giving mountain air."
"I have located a band of counterfeiters the makers of that clever counterfeit bill on the Excelsior National Bank of New York. You've heard of it the one they said was printed from the Racksburg plates." "Sure, the one Fields tried to run to earth last year." "The same." "That's a big feather in your cap." "In following up one thread I seem to have gotten away from another.
"I'll take it now it won't take a minute." The man pushed his way into the vault. He took hold of a box. Then he suddenly backed away. "He's in there!" he gasped. "In there? Where?" "There on the shelf! Look out!" "Ha! So he is!" ejaculated Matlock Styles. He, too, leaped back. "I've got him, too, the skunk!" Both of the counterfeiters leaped into the passageway.
It was about two o'clock in the morning when they came in sight of the chimney rock which Ned had noted on the trip of the afternoon. It rose from the west slope of the mountain like a tower, tall, bulky, forbidding. Looking down upon it from the east, Ned saw that there was a small canyon in between it and the slope, much the same as the formation near the cave of the counterfeiters.
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