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"Then we have been followed after all!" shouted Japson, hoarsely. "We have been trapped!" "You've hit the nail on the head," called out Dick. "Now, don't touch that door, or it will be the worse for you." "Is he alone?" whispered Pelter. "No, I am not alone!" answered Dick. "Hi, Tom, am I alone?" he called. "Not much!" answered Tom. "We are all on deck here, and all armed.
"I am sure it isn't his fault." "How did it happen?" questioned Tom. "They were taken out of the safe at the offices." "Stolen from the safe, you mean?" "Yes." "When was this?" "Day before yesterday." "Of course the safe was locked?" put in Sam. "Certainly." "But Pelter and Japson knew that combination, didn't they, Dick?" questioned Tom, eagerly. "No, Tom, they did not.
"I'll make the regular charge a little later," said Dick. "It may be that I'll have some men in the city arrested first." And then he and his brothers moved off, after receiving instructions from the police official as to what might be best to do. "Are you going to have Japson arrested?" asked Sam. "If I can find him. But I guess he'll keep out of sight for the present, Sam.
From what was said it was easy to guess that the plotters expected to make quite a large sum of money out of their evil doings. "But you have got to get Rover's signatures to those papers," said Jesse Pelter. "We'll do it!" cried Josiah Crabtree. "Even if we have to starve him into it." "I hope those boys didn't come after the schooner," muttered Japson.
"Just you come with me." Dan Baxter led the way to the nearest elevated station and they ran upstairs to the platform and soon boarded a car bound for the vicinity of Prospect Park. "The young lady lives in the Nirwick Apartments," explained Baxter. "It is a big place, with elevator service. I don't know to which apartment Japson went, but maybe the elevator man can tell us."
"And they got old Crabtree to manage the kidnapping," put in Tom. "But how did they know about Crabtree?" asked Sam. "Most likely he has been mixed up in some of their shady transactions of the past," replied Dick. "When he got in jail, he sent for Japson and made him fix it up so he could escape. That fire helped the rascals.
He simply came in here, removed that board, slid up the back section of the safe, and took out what he wanted." "And the fellow who did it " broke in Sam. "Was either Pelter or Japson," finished Dick. "Then you think this letter came from " Tom started to say. "That young fellow whose life you saved Barton Pelter," answered Dick.
"Not if I know it," murmured Dick, to himself. "You are a first-class fellow to put in jail you and the others, too!" The talk in the apartment went on, covering the things Belright Fogg was to do while Pelter and Japson were in hiding in Canada. The unscrupulous lawyer was to produce a power of attorney dated some days before, so that he might act in place of the brokers.
Stanhope, and see what a rascal he turned out to be!" "I wonder if they have captured him yet," mused Tom. "Never mind Crabtree now," put in Dick. "What we want to do is to find father. I don't know exactly how we are going at it, but I think I'll have some sort of plan by morning." "We can go down to Pelter, Japson & Company and make them tell what they know," said Sam.
The meal concluded, they went up to their rooms, to talk the matter over further. "I suppose Aunt Martha and Uncle Randolph are as anxious, almost, as we are," said Sam. "Hang the luck! I wish old Crabtree was back in jail, and Pelter, Japson & Company were with him!" There was a knock on the door and a boy appeared with a telegram. It was addressed to Dick.
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