A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 41: what you’re looking at

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— = A LEAGUE OF THREE. 39 struck a path that led him to its center, when he kindled a fire, stripped and commenced to dry his clothes. He finally succeeded, and later found a temporary shelter where he turned in to sleep through the balance of the night. CHAPTER V. VUR HERO REACHES NEW YORK AND MEETS WITH FRESH ADVENTURES. MADIE arose bright and early on the following morning and trudged along until late in the afternoon when he reached a railway station and succeeded in securing passage on a train which was due in New York about ten o’clock. Strangely enough, when considering his preceding expe- rience, he reached the city without encountering any fur- ther adventures; but oncein New York the fun commenced. It appeared as though he were fated to pass from one scrimmage to another. As has been intimated, Madie was pretty well posted, through reading, concerning the various devices resorted to by New York criminals'to rob and delude the unwary, and our hero had not been off the train three minutes when a fellow approached him. “Do you want a good hotel to stop over in?” asked the stranger. The latter was a natural question and did not savor of any design. Our hero felt that after all his rough experi- ence 14 would do him good tosleep on a good soft bed for at Jeast one night, and he calculated also that it would be well to have a temporary home from where to arrange for his campaign, and he answered: “ Maybe your lodging house is too expensive for me.’ “Tt is the cheapest lodging house in the town. It is (E(©) oe a ee es ~ a = . ; . ry Pe -