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To this he made his way, and, looking through a good-sized knot-hole in the partition, he saw Arnold Baxter, Girk, and the two newcomers, seated on several boxes and boards. On one box stood a candle thrust in the neck of a bottle, some liquor and glasses, and a pasteboard box containing a cold lunch. "So you're glad I've come, eh?" Dan Baxter was saying to his father.
"The detectives are following up one or two clues. One report was that this Baxter and Girk had gone to some place on Staten Island. But I don't think they know for certain." Perhaps it will be as well to go back a bit and learn how poor Dora was enticed into leaving home so unexpectedly, to the sorrow of her mother and the anxiety of Dick and her other friends.
A long conversation followed, and then Dick and the others went to the police station. The rooms at Yates' tenement were thoroughly searched once more, and a watch was set for Girk and Arnold Baxter. But the rascals had flown and the watch proved useless.
"Then the thieves had the combination," put in Sam. "More than likely." "I wonder if Baxter and Girk committed that crime?" came from Dick. "I think they would be equal to it. They were up to some game." "It might be," returned Senator Harrington, with interest. "But how would those men obtain the combination of Rush & Wilder's safe?"
"You followed Girk to this place and were spying on us." "I think I had a right to follow Girk. He is wanted by the authorities, as you know." "You heard us planning to do something." "Perhaps I did." "I know you did." "All right, then; don't ask me about it." "You think that you are a smart boy," growled Baxter uneasily. "Thank you for nothing." "Don't get impudent."
"One of those men was Buddy Girk!" ejaculated Tom, when the pair had passed up the alleyway. "And don't you know who the other was?" demanded Sam. "It was Dan Baxter's father!" "Impossible, Sam. Arnold Baxter is in the hospital, and " "It was Dan Baxter's father, as true as I'm born, Tom. No wonder he walked with a cane! Am I not right, Frank?"
"I wish I could collar him and make him talk about father's affairs," grumbled Tom. "Why, did he know anything of your father's affairs?" exclaimed Frank Harrington, in astonishment. "I think so. You see, Arnold Baxter tried to defraud my father out of some western mining property, and this Buddy Girk was mixed up in the affair how, I don't exactly know." "I see.
"You think you did a big thing in rescuing Dom Stanhope and in putting me and my father and Buddy Girk in prison. But let me tell you that this game hasn't come to an end yet, and some day we intend to square accounts." "There is no use in wasting breath in this fashion, Baxter," returned Dick, as calmly as he could. "We are two to one, and the best thing to do is for you to submit.
He ought to drive 'em all away," answered Peleg Snuggers; and then the carryall passed on. When it was gone, and the wagon with the trunks had followed, the tramp came out of the brush and gazed after both turnouts. "Say, Buddy Girk, but dat was a narrow escape," he muttered to himself. "Wot brought dem young gents to dis neighborhood? It can't be possible da have tracked me an' so quick."
The boys had to walk to the corner of the block to get aboard of a street car, and while waiting there, somewhat in the shadow, Sam pulled Dick by the coat sleeve. "There he goes!" "Who?" "Buddy Girk. See him sneaking along the buildings over there?" and the youngest Rover pointed with his hand. All saw the figure, and Tom at once proposed that they follow the fellow.
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