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"What is all this, Strong?" asked the marshal. "That bank-robbing gang you ordered me to bring in," answered Ted. "You made quick work of it. Get any of the money?" "All of it. It is in the Strongburg bank. You see, they made the mistake of robbing us last night. But for that they would have got away, and we would have had a hard time catching them. As it was, they walked right in to us."
The first thing he did was to open the tin box. On top were the packages of bills stolen from the cubby-hole, and beneath it a large amount of money and the bonds taken from the Strongburg Trust Company, as well as registered letters from which the money had not yet been extracted, and a large amount of brand-new treasury notes which answered the description of the government funds stolen from Creviss' bank.
"We'll be too busy to-morrow looking after our guests, and I don't suppose we'll be free until after the dance to-morrow night. Still, I'm not worrying about it. We know everybody here to-night, and I'll take care of it till we can ride over to Strongburg and bank it."
The board was turned back into place and the rug spread out again. "Safe as in the Strongburg Bank," said Kit. "Well, me for the feathers. We're going to be kept humping to-morrow. Buenas noches." In a few minutes the big ranch house was dark and quiet; every person in it was sound asleep.
But that boy is a tough citizen, and getting tougher every day." "I'm hearing a good deal about that kid these days. He trains with a bunch of bad ones over at Strongburg." "For instance?" "Lately he's been running with 'Skip' Riley, a crook who has the reputation of having made more money out of holding up trains than by working." "I know his record. How long has he been there?" "Several months.
"Skip Riley is not his name at all." "That so? What is it? Did you learn?" "I was talking to a lady from Strongburg, one of those who got him a job on the fire department." "What did she know about him?" "She said that she was appointed a committee of one by the Ladies' Aid Society over there to look up the new fireman's career." "And I suppose she ran onto some hot stuff?"
Stella looked around the table to see how this was taken. "C'rect!" shouted Bud. "Stella, yer struck ther problem a solar plexus thet time." "That does seem reasonable, and if it is true it solves the mysterious robberies of the Strongburg Trust Company's office, the post office, and Creviss' bank," said Ted. "It's worth looking into, anyway," said Ben.
He came there from the Nebraska penitentiary, and he was smooth enough to work the reformed-criminal, first-offense racket on the women there until they finally got him a job in the fire department. He seems to be a hero in the eyes of a lot of tough young fellows here and in Strongburg, and they follow him in anything he suggests." "That's not a healthy proposition for a boy. Mr.
During the morning there was a baseball game between the cowboys and the clerks from the stores in Soldier Butte and Strongburg, in which the score was forty-one to three in favor of the clerks. The cowboys couldn't play ball any more than a rabbit, encumbered as they were by their chaps, high-heeled boots, and spurs. It took a home-run hit to get one of them to first base.
"Who but a gang of bad boys under the leadership and tutelage of a criminal?" answered Ted. "Who but the gang of Strongburg and Soldier Butte young toughs who go by the silly name of 'The Flying Demons'? If they get gay around this ranch, we'll have to tie a can to them and head them for the reform school or the penitentiary."
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