A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 81: what you’re looking at

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. A LEAGUE OF THREE. Patsy was very happy, and some day we will tell our readers what he did with a part of the money, which was to him a great fortune. That same night the two lads had a long talk, and our hero, after a long spell of thinking, asked: “Patsy, what is your idea?’’ “T have a hundred.’ ' “ Get’s hear one of them.”? “ Maybe the girl ran away.”’ ac No. 13 “ Maybe she was drowned.’’ **T don’t believe it.” “Well, I’ve given you my ideas. Now, what do you believe?”’ -“T still believe that Italian knows something about her.”’ ‘“*] don’t agree with you.’’ ‘To-morrow we will try a new plan.’’ **What is your new plan?’”’ “We know the route the girl would take to go to the artist’s studio.” “ Where he will go no more for the present,’ interjected Patsy. ‘lhe chances are his case is settled for the present.”’ ‘*lt’s strange, Madie. ‘What is strange?” ‘hat a man with his talent should become a forger.’’ ‘Ah, Patsy, the lust for gold is something terrible. He nas been tempted by others.’’ ‘**Do you believe there is any good in him?”? “‘t cannot tell. If he is innocent as concerns Addie there may be some good in him.’’ ‘Then if I were you I’d get your friend, the detective, to take you to sce him in hiscell. Now that he is doomed he may reveal something to you.”’ ‘‘T will visit him later on. In the meantime we will carry out my plan; it is a good one.”’ , comicbooks