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Kiddie looked at the smooth soles inquiringly, nodded in satisfaction, and then leant forward and carefully picked a thread of yellow worsted from Undrell's striped vest. "How do you explain," he went on, "that we found a thread of this very same yellow wool caught in the glass of that broken window?
Nick Undrell's different." "What about Nick Undrell?" Kiddie asked. "That fetches me up against the point," returned Isa. "That's the business brought me on your trail. But before we drag in Nick, I'll start at the beginnin'. I don't doubt you remember the name of Sanson T. Wrangler." "Yes," Kiddie affirmed, "he kept a prosperous general store in Laramie.
Nick Undrell glanced at them and shook his head. "Them's just toy smokes," he objected. "Gimme some sensible, strong pipe terbacco an' I'll thank you; but I got no use fer aristocratic playthings like them. What you got in th' bag?" Kiddie afterwards had an important reason for remembering Nick Undrell's contempt for cigarettes.
I don't deny that the pipe was Nick Undrell's, or the boots, or that the threads of yellow worsted came from Nick's vest. But in spite of these clues, yes, even because of them, I believe that Nick Undrell had nothing to do with this robbery." "Git!" exclaimed Isa Blagg, with a derisive laugh. "S-shoo!" whispered Rube in amazement.
"Nick Undrell's bin seen prowlin' around this yer camp a good deal lately since you've bin away on your trip, Kiddie. I'm kind o' suspicious that he ain't spying around for no good. Seems he's bin making friends with that big dog, too." "With Sheila?" Kiddie started upright in his seat. "By the way, where is she? I haven't seen or heard her since we came back.
"Right," said Kiddie; "go ahead." Rube found an empty packing-case against the boards under the window. He mounted on top of it, and examined the window sash and the broken pane of glass, by means of which the catch of the window had been opened. There were finger-marks on the glass, but these did not help him, since he did not yet know what kind of marks Nick Undrell's fingers might have left.
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