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oys that he had found an ideal editor for the monthly magazine conducted in the

e who opposed this choice, not openly but in a sneering, underhand way that

If we did we could hire a six-dollar-a-week typewriter girl to do the work. Any one can work

te to it, Pete?" asked Me

publication and I am not going to have my

te. You don't have to pat yo

rring, annoyed at these interruptions and yet not wishing

d to make a fool of yourself for all tha

make a fool of myself. What

of the group. "What we want to get at is t

!" said al

to work

g in a mysterious tone. "I'll

Jack Sheldon, however, Dick, Harry and a few more assisting him in the selection and arra

for the weekly paper and to give him news as well if there happened to be any a

gly of Jack, to sneer at everything he said or at every word

not to notice it and as far as snubbing went he never had anyth

n the woods half way down from the Academy, absorbed in thought and paying little attentio

you like

grey suit and wearing a thick black beard, standing

ce and straightening himself as if wish

going to a high-cla

if I pay for it?"

money. Have yo

ep it with me," with

the other in a dogged tone. "Come closer. I want to ta

ce and Jack looked around sharply but saw nothing, the

ething in there and I would get it. I have used it for a post-office before. It has been very handy. So, y

erty it was," came the quiet answer.

pals getting frightened I would have ha

your description and know your reputation," said Ja

nd restoring it again in a flash but revealing for a brief moment a large white

do

ut I do and with profit. You know the bank, don't you? Give me a little idea of the location of things.

d Jack, firmly, "and it is usel

ther, Mr. John S

not!" said Ja

en the man said with

p quiet; refuse and I will see that your term here is a very

urrying away and looking around sharply, the so

he thought, and made his way as rapidly as possible to

but Jack did not look back to see where h

lephone which the boys were allowed to

ething. I will communicate with you as previously arr

purposely cautious and guarded, knowing that some of the operators

he hung up the receiver and went to f

trange interview had disappeared in the woods, Peter Herring cre

tt and the two hurried toward the

whole business?

t's a nic

d on Sheldon. The son of a bank rob

the robbery himsel

look so," snarled the

to co