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"I'm afraid I can't give you their names," Mr. Stanlock replied slowly. "You don't mean to say that you let them get away without finding out who they were, do you?" his daughter inquired with just a shade of indignation. "No, not exactly that, for I can easily get all their names any time I want them. But I know also that they don't wish to get into the newspapers in connection with this affair."
By the way, that makes me think I ought to call Mills up and find out if he did call a meeting. The notice was on his stationery and it is just possible that wasn't a fake." In a few moments Mr. Stanlock was talking with Mills on the phone. The latter was astonished, declared that he had no idea of calling a meeting that night. "Well, it's lucky I kept the notice," the mining president muttered.
Stanlock, as he greeted her and the other members of the family with a rapid succession of hugs and kisses, indicating, in spite of his attempts to appear composed, that he had returned home not under the most ordinary circumstances. "Why didn't you?" Marion insisted. "Do you know what a state of mind you had us in during the last two or three hours?"
A few of the bits of torn paper were missing, so that a word was wanting here and there in the text, but apparently the idea and purpose of the writer did not suffer from these vacancies. The letter as read at last by Mr. Stanlock was as follows: "Dear ...r "You have failed to do what I ... you to do. I told you that it was ... dangerous to bring the girls here.
The second letter read thus: "Miss Stanlock: This is to serve you with warning not to take your friends with you to Hollyhill this vacation to work among the poor families of the striking miners. We know that move of yours is inspired by the rankest hypocrisy, that you have no genuine desire to do anything for our starving families.
This left ten girls among whom the watches might be divided, which was done in the following manner: The eight sleeping hours from 9 P. M. to 5 A. M. were divided into five watches of equal length and assignments were made thus: First watch: Marion Stanlock and Helen Nash. Second watch: Ruth Hazelton and Ethel Zimmerman. Third watch: Violet Munday and Harriet Newcomb.
"I told her to go out and find the stone, and she went out and picked one up just about where she said the stone that was thrown at her fell." "Were there any other stones near there?" Marion Stanlock inquired. "We looked around specially to find out if there were any others near, but didn't find any," Olga answered. "Addie that's my sister had the laugh on us all after that."
The question fell with something of a shock on the ears of the assembled searchers who had just completed a second fruitless hunt through the house. Why had they not thought of the trio of "mystery masters" before? "We ought to have called them in at once," Mrs. Stanlock said. "I suppose they've gone by this time, but I'll see."
Stanlock, several of his neighbors, and three policemen, led by the two Scout messengers, burst into the room and announced that they had brought three bob-sleds to give them all a sleighride. And a glorious sleighride home it was for all except the two prisoners, whom the police took into custody. There was a real success in store for them.
Marion inquired by way of introducing the subject. Mr. Stanlock laughed heartily. "Kidnap me!" he exclaimed. "Well, that's a good one. I thought they only kidnapped kids." "Father," the girl pleaded; "do be serious with me. I've got something very important to show you, something I forgot all about until Helen reminded me.
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