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238 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. “I can take you up there so you won't be seen. We can lay quiet for a chance to meet her, or to see her somehow.”’ ~ Bob shook his head. “There is no risk in going up there,’’ urged Ransom. pwee here, Bob,” putin Moere,- the more 1 time of it the clearer it is to me, that you ought to do as Ransom says. If Mrs. Stanton made that arrange- ment with you, she knows what that burglary, as they call it, meant. If she has squealed at all, she would have given you away before you left Hetlow’s house. The fact that you were permitted to leave is proof to me that she hasn’t. ‘There is something in her failure to carry out the scheme with you, and in the box being missing, that we don’t understand.’’ ‘‘By George! that is so,’’ exclaimed Bob, caught by the argument. “Well then, you do what Ransom says. Go up there under cover and I will go to Philadelphia to-night. We were all ready for the next move but everything must stop now until we know the grounds We are on.’’ Bob yielded, and the worthies -fell to making plans as to the course to be pursued in reaching Mrs. Stan- ton. Orton Pierson was called out of the room. He returned shortly, much alarmed, exclaiming: ‘Mason went straight from the station to the police headquarters. ’’ ‘‘Well,’’ said Ransom, ‘‘that ought not to frighten ou. It wasthe famous burglary that sent him there.”’ ‘*Ah, but if that wereall,’’ returned Pierson. ‘‘The last place he visited before he left town was police headquarters. ’’ aa 5, Mason!’’ cried Ransom. ‘‘He is getting too fresh. He must be stopped. Bob, meet me at the old place to-night, at eight o’clock, togged up. 106i. And thus the conference ended. CoOmicboolkk<s 3