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"Well, why do you want to know?" he said. "Because I'm a friend of Skinny's, that's why," I said. Then I just blurted out, "I might as well tell you because, anyway, you're smarter than I am. They found a key on Skinny." He just said, "When?" "To-day," I said, "and it's probably a key to one of the lockers in our house-boat.
"Shut up!" he said. "Camp McCord is the name of the place and there Skinny's going to stay till the Elk Patrol of the Bridgeboro Troop marches down in a body and hands him the gold cross. Those are the Gold Dust Twins' orders." "But Bert," I said, "that isn't the way they present the cross. You have to have a special meeting and the scoutmaster "
"Pretty soon he heard Jake's boat coming up the river and saw the light and he just waited there and when Jake come up alongside the float, the first thing Skinny heard him say was, Roy Blakeley is dead didn't you, Skinny?" But I could see that Skinny's eyes were shut now and he didn't hear. "Go on," I said. "So Skinny told him it wasn't true, and told him about the signal.
"That's funny," he thought, "wonder where Skinny's at?" Then it flashed through his mind that something must be wrong for the girl was riding alone. "Hell!" he exclaimed aloud, "she's by herself an' headin' straight for th' upper ford!" Only an instant he paused. "Jack!" he cried sharply, running to the corral gate and swinging it partly open. "Come quick!"
"Wasn't that what made th' Ramblin' Kid kill the Greek?" "No, it was something else," Skinny answered; "but Sabota ain't dead. He's just crunched up pretty bad th' Ramblin' Kid jumped on him, like Captain Jack did on that feller from the Chickasaw that tried to steal him!" Skinny's mind was in a whirl. So the Ramblin' Kid was not drunk the day of the race!
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