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Updated: June 4, 2025
"You're too easy on the skunks, Hugh, take my word for it," said Thad, with a trace of disappointment in his voice. "A fellow like Nick Lang never can appreciate such a thing as leniency. You've got to give him what he believes in, and that's brute force. Well, then, if you won't have Leon arrested, at least you can keep this hand-torch as a trophy of the momentous occasion.
Upon that one small possibility rested all their hopes. Thad knew that possibly he and his chums might render some assistance at this critical moment, if so be they were ready. "Allan Giraffe, come here!" he called out.
"You're right, Hugh; that's surely what it is," greed Thad, almost immediately; and each of the other three went on record with a corresponding affirmative.
Hugh and Thad walked on, the latter fairly boiling with ill-suppressed anger. "That fellow always gives me a pain, Hugh," he was saying, as they increased the distance separating them from the still merry trio in the rear. "He is really the meanest boy you could find in all the towns of this country.
But Nick here is known, and people point their fingers at him with scorn, and talk openly about his playing another of his pranks." "That was just what I had in mind when I spoke, Thad. Nick has the harder row of the two to hoe. And if he wins out he'll deserve a lot of praise, I tell you. But see who's coming along here in a rig, will you?"
Wow! look at that, would you!" Thad's startled exclamation was not in the least surprising, considering what had happened. As he idly opened the book there was disclosed a little collection of genuine government yellowback bills, not one of which was less than ten dollars in its denomination. No wonder both boys stared, their eyes seemingly "as big as saucers," as Thad afterwards described it.
It's an awful feeling, let me tell you." "I was just wondering," said Thad, "if those two foreigners who own this beast will ever show up to reclaim him." "My stars! I hope so," remarked the other, looking horrified at the very thought of keeping Bruin much longer. "But what can we do to let 'em know we've got their old hairy exhibit eating us out of house and home?"
Hugh meant to take Thad into his confidence at the first favorable opportunity. He knew his chum would never breathe a syllable of what he told him; and possibly two heads might prove better than one in solving what promised to be a great enigma. But the time was too short now to even mention the matter.
By sticking to the beach, where there is any, you might make it in a couple of hours; but altogether it'd be well into afternoon before you got in touch with Allan and the rest." "All right, I'm willing to make the try, if only you give the word, Thad," the Jones boy went on, with a vein of urgency in his voice. "Just the idea seems to tickle me more'n I c'n tell you.
But before Thad put out the lantern, he placed it just where he could lay his hand on it at a second's notice and also made sure to have matches handy. Nor was that all. He quietly picked up the old Marlin, and deposited it alongside his bunk. Then came darkness, as he blew out the light.
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