A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 97: what you’re looking at

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A LEAGUE OF THREE. " “How?” * By this escape we are killing the story you will have te teil when we are caught.” “We do not mean to be caught.”’ “Those men are in our room by this time.”’ } “Well?”? | “They will find all our disguises and will have theevi- = dence dead against us that we are regular burglars.” ist)” “They can have the evidence as long as they do not ine Mi get us.”’ ye “What will we Go now?” " ; 3 “Tay low, of course, and to-morrow we will go around tv that house again and dog that man. Addie is there, — or he knows where she is, and I will rescue her or die, o go to state’s prison, that’s all.” | “Tf it was any one else, Madie, [’d ask you to count me out, but I’il stick to you even if it’s death or the jail.” ¥, i°t CHAPTER X. THE BOYS BECOME FUGITIVES. THE two lads found a hiding place for the night, and despite their exciting Ua el slept soundly until ‘morning. 4 In the meantime the detectives did force an entrance into their room. Patsy had been right when he said the officers would trail them down, and it was the detectives whom the lads had heard in the hall, and they would have heard something that would have amused them had they been present when the detectives got into the room. The latter had been laying low to catch the boys napping, but finally decided to enter, and when they did, as our readers have conjectured, they found that the birds had flown. ) “Well, [ll be shot,” cried one of the officers, “they } have beat us.” | ‘: