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Illustrator: C. H. Lawrence
Language: English
By
JOHN LUTHER LANGWORTHY
Chicago
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
CANOE AND CAMPFIRE SERIES
“Did you ever see such nerve, Puss, in all your life?” gasped Sandy,
as the two newcomers brought up alongside the astonished Andy.
“Look at the vandal, would you, ripping the cover off our cylinder just
as cool as you please! Hey! Sandy, see anything of the yard
watchman around? We ought to have him pinch this thief straight
away!” snapped the Carberry boy, as he glared at the stooping
figure.
“Ain’t he the bird, though?” went on Sandy, pretending to be
surprised in turn; “And as sure as you live, Puss, it’s the tail end of
that wonderful Bird combination that’s going to do such stunning
stunts one of these fine days. Oh! me! oh! my! What a loss there’ll be
when he is shut up in the cooler!”
“Looky here, just explain what right you’ve got cutting open our
freight, that’s the ticket!” blustered Percy, shaking his clenched hand
in front of Andy’s nose.
“Take that away! I don’t like it. And what the dickens do you mean
saying this thing is your freight?” demanded the threatened one,
beginning to gain his feet; for he did not just fancy kneeling so close
to a fellow like Percy Hollingshead, whose reputation for treachery
was well known.
“Because it is our freight. Go back to school and learn to read, you
lunkhead!” the other went on, seeming to get more and more angry
—because they were two to one, and the freight yard was a usually
sequestered place, where no one would be apt to interfere, if so be
they chose to administer a drubbing to the offensive investigator.
“But it’s certainly a cylinder for an airship!” declared Andy, casting a
quick glance down toward his feet, where the partly uncovered