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While Tom was talking to Sobber the other Rover boys had followed Cuffer to the elevated railroad station. A train was just coming in and Cuffer bounded up the steps two at a time, with the boys not far behind. "Stop that man!" cried Dick, to the crowd coming from the train.
"You won't dare to shoot us," blustered Merrick, but his voice had a trace of uncertainty in it. "Won't we?" answered Dick. "There is a warning for you!" And raising the pistol he carried he sent a shot over the heads of the other party. "They are shooting at us! We'll all be killed!" yelled Tad Sobber, who had come back during the conversation, and again he and Cuffer took to their heels.
"However, we can report it to morrow. But I think Cuffer and Shelley will keep in the shade until they see Sid Merrick and have a chance to get away," and in this surmise Mr. Rover was correct. The matter was reported to the police, and that was the end of it, so far as the authorities went, for they failed to apprehend the evildoers. Mr.
But before anybody would or could act, Cuffer had slipped past the man at the ticket box and was trying to board one of the cars. Dick essayed to follow, but the ticket box guard stopped him. "Not to fast, young fellow. Where's your ticket?" "I must catch that man he is wanted by the police," answered Dick. "That's an old dodge, but it don't work with me, see?
But to follow anybody long in a crowd on the Bowery is not easy, and after six blocks had been passed Dick came to a halt on a corner in bewilderment. He had seen Cuffer last on that corner, but where the rascal had gone was a question. "Want a paper?" asked an urchin close by. "Evening papers!" "Say, kid, did you see a man run past here just now?" asked Dick. "Sure I did." "Where did he go?"
And since some of the encounters are light and easy, others laborious and difficult, the Delphians offered sacrifices to Apollo the cuffer; the Cretans and Spartans to Apollo the racer; and the dedication of spoils taken in the wars and trophies to Apollo Pythias show that he is of great power to give victory in war.
Nevertheless, he was rather in favor of the plan, and when the Merrick party stopped again, for Cuffer to take a stone out of his shoe, they "cut into" the woods and pushed forward with all speed. It was hard work, but they were in deadly earnest, and did not let the vines and brushwood deter them.
"Been listening to all our talk, I suppose," said Cuffer, uglily. He was angry to think that Dick had been able to follow him after all. "I have," was the youth's bold reply. He felt nothing was to be gained by beating around the bush. "It's a nice business to be in!" "It is better than the business you are in." "I don't think so." "I do.
Cuffer followed him, and Shelley also retreated several yards. "Stop, you fools!" cried Sid Merrick. "Those are no ghosts, I tell you. It's a trick of some kind." "I I don't know about that," answered Shelley. "Don't you think it would be better to come here in the daylight? We er we can't find that cave in the dark anyway." "Yes, we can and I am going to do it, too," was Merrick's answer.
"I think not, sir." "How many persons got aboard?" "Five or six." "One of them a young fellow?" "Yes, sir, and one was a fellow who was very dark." Mr. Rover knew that Doranez was very dark, and he rightfully surmised that the party had been made up of Merrick, Tad, Doranez, Cuffer and Shelley. "This is certainly a serious turn of affairs," said he to his sons.
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