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82 ss UNDER HIS THUMB. ing worth repeating, and therefore it was useless to palaver with him longer. So he was on the point of releasing Steve when the sound of approaching footsteps caused him to wait. In another moment George Dyer, the fugitive foreman, appeared, and espying the apprentice, ex- claimed: ) - a DYER SPRANG TO BLAIN’S ASSISTANCE. ‘So that is the eavesdropper! Lucky you caught him, for he is a dangerous youngster. ”’ Steve’s heart sank within him. He knew that Dyer, in his desperation, would not treat him gently. He knew that he was in a decidedly unpleasant pre-_ dicament. Again he struggled to break away from his cap- comicbooks.com—