In Barracks and Wigwam — page 29: what you’re looking at

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The Discovery of a Plot. 19 The two were Bruce Cameron and Steve Halsey—as Linn discovered at once—and they were headed toward the Indian school. “What can they be up to?” Jinn muttered. ‘Some mischief, I’ll bet anything. Just one scrape, if he is caught at it, will settle Bruce. I have half a mind to-——” On the spur of the moment he struck diagonally across the street, and gained the opposite pavement, at a spot where the shadows were deep, barely in time to head the boys off. ‘Hallo, Bruce,’ he whispered. “I thought that was you.” Steve dodged quickly toward a tree, evidently scared by the unexpected encounter, but Bruce held his ground. “What are you doing here, Linn Hilliard?” he de- manded, sullenly. “Just taking a little walk before going to bed,” Linn answered. “I want to talk to you a minute, if you don’t mind.” He made a gesture to Bruce, and the latter accompa- nied him a few yards down the street, leaving Steve standing alongside the tree. “IT hope you won’t be angry,” Linn began, “for what I am going to say is for the sake of old friendship.” “Tt don’t know why you need say anything,’ muttered Bruce. “I can take care of myself.” “You haven’t been doing it very well lately,” replied Linn, “if all that I hear is true. And you and Steve have surely got some mischief on hand for to-night.” “No, we haven’t,”’ declared Bruce. “What makes you think that? Steve is only walking part of the way home with me.”’ Linn was not convinced, for he knew by his uneasy manner and by the tone in which he spoke that Bruce ’ Eomichbooks co was telling an untruth.