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"Let me tickle him with my little toy here. Safety first, as these people always say." "Be quiet!" ordered Ledermann. "And you too, young fellow! If you try to scream, we will kill you." "Aw, quit your kiddn'!" said Porky cheekily. "What would I want to yell for? I don't want to get arrested any more than I am. I want to go home! tell you, how could I hear anything when I was asleep?
"I come to buy horses, Ledermaim, and my father and Colonel Bright's father, they were friends. I bring a letter from my father in Switzerland. Unfortunately the Colonel's father, he is dead; so I make acquaintance with his son. Do you see, Ledermann and Adolph, and you too, Weasel, that I take for myself the hardest job? Now attend. Under no circumstances are you to speak to me.
I can't trust myself to touch him. Lost that paper of course it is written in invisible ink; but suppose some blundering fool should get it near a fire?" "They won't," said Ledermann as he worked over Adolph. "These stupid country people, what would they know about invisible ink? It may never be found at all. It may even now be trodden in the dust." "Let us hope," said the Wolf.
I tell you I have made war something so horrible that they will sleep restless from now on. I have planted dread and sorrow on many a heart. I have some plans I found on the Colonel's table when I was fixing his electric light. I memorized them and later wrote them down. Here they are." "It is too bad you did not memorized the letter of instructions you lost," said Ledermann.
Isn't that a fine little place to hide things?" he chuckled, and replaced the packets, screwed the heel in place, and stamped his foot on the floor. Then he turned to his bottle. Ledermann had placed it beyond his reach. "Give me that!" he demanded violently. Ledermann obeyed. The Wolf turned to him. "Now, Ledermann, no fooling here; turn in all your accounts.
"There, there," said Ledermann quietly, as he nudged Adolph under cover of the darkness. "All we want to know is how much you heard. It is nothing to me what you do after that. You see my friend here does not mean what he says, but well, I may as well tell you how it is." He turned the flashlight on the boy's face and held it there, watching him like a hawk while he talked.
He was thrown from his horse to-day, and is in the Hospital. I think he is honestly hurt, because he cannot use his foot, and when I made an excuse and worked my way in, he whispered, 'Not before Thursday." "That will be day after to-morrow," said Adolph. "And we meet him then, I take it, in the usual place?" "Yes," said Ledermann shortly. Porky listened breathlessly to know where the place was.
He started to rise, but Ledermann pushed him back. "Not so fast, not so fast, young follow!" he said slowly. "I would like to find out, if possible, just how much asleep you were. You see we don't think you would listen to anything that was not intended for your ears, but we want you to tell us if you did hear any little thing. By mistake, of course." "Wasting time!" grunted Adolph.
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