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What Chet had found out from Dan Smith, Hester Grimes' neighbor, interested the quick mind of Billy Long immensely. "Gee! I knew it must be something like that. Sure! Purt is shielding somebody for Hester. That's it!" "Have you no idea who it can be? The man who drove the car, I mean, or the one who possibly took the nine-ten express out of town that night? Hester has no brothers "
Mighty unusual they'll take up with a man after that. I used to be married to a Indian woman up on the Big Wind that was some hummer trainin' sheep-dogs. That woman could sell 'em for a hundred dollars apiece as fast as she could raise 'em and train 'em up, and them dad-splashed collies they'd purt' near all come back home after she'd sold 'em.
Here was the spot to deflect the waters before they sped on down over the steep fall. Upon the south side there was a jagged cut in the saw-toothed cliff line. Even now the lowest part of that cut, when once the free soil was scooped out, was not ten feet above the level of the water. "I rode up here purt' near a week ago," said Ettinger.
"Somebody has been stringing him about outlaws." "Short and Long looks guilty," said Chet, suspiciously. "What you been stuffin' Purt with, Billy?" Billy Long, who straddled the piazza rail, swinging his feet, showed his teeth in a broad smile. "You read about that Halliday fellow, didn't you?" he asked. "Oh! the chap they say stole the money from that Albany bank?" responded Lance.
And I'll lose by it, too," said the butcher, but with an avaricious sparkle in his eye. "A dollar's worth of frankfurters!" gasped Purt. "Yes. An' I wish they'd ha' chocked the brute," complained the butcher. "I wish they had before he ever saw me," murmured Purt. He paid over the money and hurried away from the laughing crowd.
Almost everybody on the island but themselves realized the identity of the third figure in the Duchess before the boat neared the beach. Suddenly Purt gasped, and sat up straighter. He glanced all about and a sort of hunted expression came into his face. "What's the matter, Mr. Sweet?" demanded Lil, in surprise. "I I thought I heard Yes! I knew I could not be mistaken," said Purt, in horror.
"Well," said Laura, "I guess Purt has finally gotten rid of the poor creature. But it was too funny for anything." The shores of Rocky River, as they advanced, were very pretty indeed. There were several suburban villages near Lumberport; but the farther they sailed up the stream the less inhabited the shores were and the wilder the scenery became. "My!" ejaculated Dorothy.
"I shall stay here to help defend the girls, doncher know," stated Purt, swaggering about the camp. "But any of you fellows can take my boat." "Spoken like a nobleman, Purt!" declared Chet, laughing. "Come on, now! Let's arrange how we shall sweep the island, from shore to shore." But first it was agreed that Lance and Reddy should go with the Duchess for the new supply of food for the girls.
"Then why won't Purt tell where he was?" demanded Lance doubtfully. "I don't care where he was," said Billy. "If he says he didn't hit the man, he didn't. That's all. And we've got to prove it, boys." "Some job you suggest," said Chet slowly. "It looks to me as though Pretty Sweet was in a bad hole, and no mistake."
He'll win a blue ribbon, he will." "Naw," said another youthful humorist. "They don't let Clarence out without the dawg. That's to keep Clarence from gettin' kidnapped. Nobody would wanter kidnap him if they had ter take that mutt along, too." Purt was too anxious to be offended by these remarks. He walked directly up to the leader of the gang. "Say!" he exclaimed, breathlessly.
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