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Rh "I don't like the sound of that word," murmured Gordon; "that is, the first and last syllables! Change it to 'cautious,' Lanny."

"Very well, let us be cautious. Farewell, Dick-ums!"

Their visit in the runabout to Brent's Addition that afternoon proved unsatisfactory. The steam roller, looking as innocent as you like, was back where they had found it and there was nothing to tell what had happened subsequent to their hurried departure. It was not until Monday morning that they had their curiosity satisfied, and then it was the Reporter that did it. The Reporter had chosen to treat the story with humor, heading it

It told how Officer Suggs, while patrolling his lonely beat on the outskirts of our fair city, had had his attention attracted by mysterious sounds on Aspen Avenue. The intrepid guardian of the law had thereupon concealed himself in ambush just in time to behold, coming toward him, one of the Street Department's steam rollers. Ordered to stop and give an account of itself, the roller had promptly attacked the officer. The latter, with rare presence of mind, leaped to a