The Argosy, Vol. XXV, No. 1 — page 170: what you’re looking at

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10 THE BUNKEL MYSTERY. ‘Don’t talk so loud, Tom,’’ said the chief sternly. ‘‘ Tom got intoa row with that other boy, and got a thrashing, to say nothing of being knocked overboard.”’ Wait till I git hold of Andy Lamb! ‘Then you will see who’ll git the thrashing,’’ said Tom. , ‘‘ We are willing to wait; but we were speaking of what had been, and not what is to be, though I shall bet on Andy,’’ added Poddy, who seemed to take pleasure in thorning his brutal assistant. ‘I was afraid Tom would get killed, and I believe I showed myself to Andy.”’ ‘' I didn’t tell him to show hisself,’’ said Tom, addressing the prisoners. ‘“Then Tom came on shore and wanted to borrow my revolvers. I re- fused to let him have them; but when he said he only wanted to scare Andy, I yielded. When I saw him blazing away at the sail boat with the young ' lady in it, I shouted to him, and said, ‘ None of that !’ I did not mean Andy should hear me; but perhaps he did. ‘That is the way Tom gave me away, for Andy is looking for the man he saw.’’ ‘“ Rynon did not care anything about the man; he wanted the boys,’’ said Dolph. ‘‘ Of course that means Phin and me.’’ : ‘ What makes you think so?’’ asked Poddy. ‘‘ He may have meant ‘Tom and his crew.”’ | . ‘’ But three of them are in the lockup now. If they had meant Tom, they would have said so, and not spokenof him in the plural number,’’ argued Dolph. 3 “Tom thinks he is a host in himself, though the officers probably don’t think so,’’ suggested the robber. ‘What time is it now, Mr. Poddy?’’ asked Dolph. ‘ Half past eleven,’’ replied the chief, when he had consulted his elegant gold watch. ‘‘’T’he forenoon is nearly gone; but we have nothing to do.”’ ‘‘ ‘Then everybody in Montoban knows that both banks were cleaned out | last night. The fact came out at nine o’clock. Phin and I have been missed, and the keys have not been found. ‘To sum it all up, Phin and I have the credit of having robbed both banks,’’ said Dolph, with some excitement in his tones and manner. ‘You are both of you entitled to that credit, for both of you intended to do just that thing,’’ chuckled Poddy. _ “‘ Now they are looking for us, and not for you,’’ added the son of the Montoban magnate. ‘‘ My father never does things by halves, and by this time he has sent a description of me to New York, and perhaps to every city in the country.”’ "' Very likely ; and that will convince you that you are in the safest pos- sible place in the whole world. ‘They will not look for you on this island.’’ That erided the conversations Without being a farthing better off than he had been the evening before, Dolph realized that he was published all over the land, to the grief and shame of his family, as a bank robber. It was a bitter thought, and down to the deepest depths of his being repented that he had ever harbored the wicked idea of robbing the bank. When the breakfast things had been put away, Poddy opened the travel- Eomichook (<(0)