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196 "What I can't figger," continued the prisoner, "is how the kid spotted me when all the others couldn't."

"Just a trick of the trade," smiled the boy, and the twinkle in his eye belied the innocence of his words as he continued: "The trouble with you is that you couldn't take a fellow at his word. When I told you to your face I would know Notorious Bishop if I saw him, didn't you believe me?"