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"But," he concluded, "it is not up to me to get at the matter. It is work for the sheriff. However, if those boys try any of their foolishness with us, we'll turn in and send them to the reform school, where they belong." "They're certainly a bad lot. I was talking to a lady at the 'rent rag' last night, and she was telling me what a horrid boy young Creviss is."
"The fellow who put that warning up certainly left his footprints behind him," said Stella, with a smile. "He did, but even without that I should have known the authors of it." "How?" Ted then told Stella the substance of the conversation between the boys the night before, and of his suspicions as to the guilt of Creviss and his gang in the mysterious robberies that had occurred in the two towns.
Ted had no doubt but Creviss and his gang would try to injure the broncho boys by every means in their power, but until they committed some overt act the boys could hardly afford to become the aggressors. For several days nothing happened, and the Moon Valley Ranch went the even tenor of its way.
"Ha, ha! that's on you, 'Honk," laughed the cowboy's friends, who had overheard the conversation, and Jack passed on, the boys alluding to him as a "game little shrimp," for the news of his summary punishment of Creviss had got abroad. But Jack was not through yet. He went into the men's dressing room to leave his hat. As he was coming out he was met by a crowd of town youths, friends of Creviss.
"Surest thing you know," drawled Jack Slate. "But there are ladies here, a thing you don't seem to realize. If you'll step outside, I'd be glad to whip you right and propah." "What's the use, Jack, of fussing with these rowdies?" said Ted. "Let it go until some other time." "You bet," said Creviss, courage returning when he heard Ted propose peace. "I guess you'd like to let it go forever."
"But there is some sneak in this bunch who hasn't the nerve to back up his brag." "Are you talking to me?" said Creviss, swelling up as to chest. "Oh, are you the misguided chump whom I heard make the remark about pushing me about, as I came up?" said Ted, in a tone of surprise. The cowboys from Suggs' ranch were snickering. "Well, what if I was?" "I'm going to make you try it."
It was a timely and masterly trick, for the sharp elbow caught Creviss' ally full in the nose, and he dropped like a limp rag to the ground, with a howl of anguish. At the same moment Jack swung his left. Creviss had struck at him and missed when he back-stepped, and coming on swiftly ran into Jack's fist with a thud that jarred him into a state of collapse.
That's all I know about it. But what makes you so anxious about it?" "Then you haven't heard the news?" "Guess not. What is it?" "The First National Bank was robbed last night." "Great guns! Creviss' bank! That's the United States depository!" "The same." "What are the details?"
Stella looked around the table to see how this was taken. "C'rect!" shouted Bud. "Stella, yer struck ther problem a solar plexus thet time." "That does seem reasonable, and if it is true it solves the mysterious robberies of the Strongburg Trust Company's office, the post office, and Creviss' bank," said Ted. "It's worth looking into, anyway," said Ben.
"It's all here," said Ted, "and the evidence is complete." "But how did he manage to do it without leaving a mark or a broken lock behind him?" asked Ben. "How? By means of this," and Ted placed his hand on the head of the midget, who shrank from him with a snarling cry. "Still I don't understand it." "The day I saw him in the Creviss bank he marched out with the plunder under my very eyes.
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