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As he looked around him he eevee Puttin his faced around the corner and Sdene of a blue light at some distance. It! feeling along the side he found that the was not in the direction of the professor. | door was open, so he carefully leaped in & “That looks like the light on a rail- | side. es toad switch, ’ thought the detective. ‘‘I There was a square hole that had once Ee Y turned around for I didn’t sup-| been a window on the side looking down the tracks in the direction which ‘he had her been taking. -—s« **TF it is, maybe I can get nearer to! Not more than two rods ahead of him _ them by walking along the tracks where just in the edge between moonlight and there won’t be any twigs. to break under-| shadow he saw two men seated upon a | neath my feet.”’ pile of sleepets. _ -—He, therefore, withdrew Cae UST Y from| It was their voices that he heard and __where he stood and made his way slowly | he quickly recogmized the professor’s. — toward the light. “If the stake wasn’t so hi gh, Duke, I ee It proved to be as he had at first should be inclined to drop the game and ee. kite beet set in a eewitch: Phas tor the Carters are not easily the railroad was anywhere near “gy Kee you’re not weakening?’ was the contemptuous retort. , ‘and it leads straight into; ‘‘No, I’m not, but I tell you, Duke, ‘that we’ve got to play our hands well -and quickly or we’re done for.’’ ‘“That’s what I’ve been telling you ae « = his 3 is a S-hrasich ‘cout cagipeesitly ” thought Trim 3 oe the woods, - . The professor must have stopped oo near itif I can judge at all se 2s “94 Bo the direction.’’ all along, aint it?’’ returned Duke. = > He, therefore, went noiselessly over the} ‘Yes, but with Scott in Portland oe ties until again he heard the murmur of) there’s danger of a misunderstanding and - _ voices ahead of him. la slip somewhere that will be fatal.°?> * ae rE The Bepon ght made the tracks selene “We rainy aoe ‘asia v ets Sap yy visible, but it was Sey dark along} “The si egraph office was closed an ch side. hour ago. Fearing that he might be seen walk- AY hen we could telegraph — ae im along the tracks, Trim withdrew into in ae peek: s _ the shadow at one side and then pro- | awe ont a ee =e seded very Cau tiously. £¢ y ao | Seaaee he voices sounded clear 3 If he address” we’ve got to give and he was just. beginning to distinguish veehes 7 words when he came against somethiin ge ‘Besides ‘that, we couldn’t say any- a! = As he was walkin g slowly the collision | =, Ash , Ween, 8h eae oe in a telegram that wouldn’t be a pee tely. = ide noise, ead give away. We ought to have fixed early 7 ee > * *. > * — ~— | up a cipher ton ago,”’ =ee Sipe daadae x som “T wish we had done so!’ ‘ = | a = Sang hardly fae than a box andit} ‘‘It’s too late to wish for that now; get | d to Trim like the little sheds that; might as well wish that Carter hadn’t , i eg ¥ € a SO ymetimes - put up near switches on a/| turned u p.’ rit | 27 ah s road for wot convenience of switch | “Confound him, anyway! Buti we . , =f | mustn’t forget that up to_ | =-©-» ‘Phere was no ‘pwiteh near ber as the| in the dark. * de dective looked back along the tracks he} ««"hat’s so,”” thought : Tim, “or you'd | “ could see from the way the ties were! be able to see me in this little shed. si he d been a| _ plac se < ate one time Shane: ee igo sar me to ret ny tm 1m at ee da | ll Ul ec ce |, be eal