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 shown himself yet. He may come out at night. Or she may go to see him. That ’s what you ’ve got to find out.

“We ’ll arrange a system of signals, so that you can summon us as soon as you locate him. The boys are to meet us, with an auto, at Beaverton—the station this side of the one where passengers get out for Careyville. We ’ll make the arrangements with them, for your signals, so as to be sure they ’ll be practicable. And we ’ll take you in the auto up the road as far as we dare go towards the bungalow, and drop you. We ’ll go on to Careyville in the machine. Then, to-morrow morning, you ’ll have to talk your way into the girl ’s confidence, some way or other. Have you brought those old clothes with you?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Well, you can put them on in the auto. I ’ll lay out a story for you as soon as we see the boys. I don’t know the locality. We ’ll have to have something about getting lost in