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"Goodness!" exclaimed Laura. "I shall be afraid of that. It's those old guns that nobody supposes are loaded, that are always going off and killing the innocent bystander. You ought to confiscate that gun, Chet." "Don't worry," returned her brother, laughing. "I've taken the trigger screw out of Purt's gun and he couldn't shoot it if he had forty cartridges in it.
Talk about 'the cat coming back? Crickey! the cat wasn't in it with this mongrel of Purt's." In the exuberance of his joy Barnacle fairly pitched Purt across the fire, and tipped over the pail of water that had been hung over it to boil. The dude seemed fated to fall into trouble on this first day of the outing. But now Purt was mad!
He went away early, I believe." "And earlier still a couple of boys, or men, borrowed Purt's car without his knowing it until afterward," Laura declared earnestly. "One of those fellows had to catch a train." "Why, that was Hester's cousin, Jeff Rounds! He lives at Norridge. Don't you know?" "Who was the other fellow?" asked Laura sharply. "Why I Oh! it must have been Tom Langley.
"But why " "Just wait a minute. Give me time," advised Bobby. "That car that did the damage was headed for the station." "True," murmured Jess. "At least, it was going in that direction." "And when Purt's car came back to the Grimes' house after those two fellows Dan Smith saw run away with it, there was only one person in the car. The second individual had been dropped."
"Well, the only thing we were sure of about the car that ran that man down the Alaskan miner, you know was that the rear wheels had no chains on them, and that it was a Perriton car like Purt's." "Yes, it was a Perriton," said his sister. "So we fellows hiked up there to Sweets'. Purt was out with the car. He came home in about an hour, and he was still skidding over the ice.
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