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wn," continued Bob. "Of course they won't be anything like the doctor's,

wait to get at it! If it wasn't so late I b

k or so we'll be sending messages everywhere. I'll

learn all about receiving them first; and believe me there's a good deal to learn about that. Then before you can send any messages you have to pass an examination and get a license. But for qu

shed by the information. "I had an idea that we

Bob. "You're in it with the

about making one for myself. I'm all thumbs when it comes to doing any mechanical work. You fellows are handy with too

of us getting busy, you'll pitch in too and make your own machine. Besides,

of the wonders they had heard and seen, and the enthusi

by insurance and that the young lady whose automobile had crashed into the store had not been seriously injured and was expected to be around again in a few days. The coolness and courage with which Bob and Joe had acted and the part played by Herb and Jimmy in checking the spread of the flames were not o

ly by the events of the last twenty-four hours. But three o'clock came at last, and with it came the reminder that they were t

greeted Bob and Joe with a smile,

about," she said mischievously, and Bob and Joe blushed to their ears. "Ju

e can wait until ano

anxious to thank you both, and I'm sure it will do her good to see you. The doctor was here this morning and said it would be all right. Of

ater was at the head of the sta

a bright, sunny room,

an easy chair, prop

appeared to be about twenty. Her face was pale, as was natural under the circums

the boys in turn, as Mrs.

g experience, as no one knows better than yourselves. I want to thank you with

e assented with a nod of his head. "We just had the good luck to

the girl. "And you took a chance of losing your lives. T

u came out of it as well a

cle that you weren'

eering gear. Then I got excited and dizzy and tried to stop the machine. What I think happened was that I put my foot on the accelerator when I meant to put it on the brake. Then when I saw that the car was p

ting her mind off the subject, which he could see was beginning to excite he

an aunt of mine. I never had any brothers or sisters. My father died some months ago and left me some property, and it was in connection with that matter that I came to Clintonia. This is the county seat, you know, and

said Bob sympathetically, "and I hope that i

Miss Berwick, with a touch of despondency in her manner. "But there's dish

to cheat you out of your property?

a rascal that would swindle an

ch there was no trace of mirth. "You see I've never had the least bit of business training and I suppose I

Of course we don't know much about law, but our fathers have lived in this town for years and know almost everybody in the county,

n. He held a mortgage of four thousand dollars on my father's house. When father was taken with his last illness he was very anxious that the mortgage should be paid so that he could leave the house to me

lize now that I ought to have had a lawyer attend to the business for me, but, as I say, I have never had any experience in business and I had a general idea that most men were honest and that there'd be no trouble about it. Cassey made a

got a receipt for

t receipt and he would go over to the bank where he kept it in his safety deposit box and get it for me. Then he looked at his watch, and seemed surprised when he saw that it was past banking hours and too late to get it that day. He said he was awfully sorry, but tha

r when he would be back, and she said that she didn't know. Then I asked her if he had left any word or any papers for me and she said he hadn't. I told her

ling came in, and behind her

ent of mine can't have company very long at a time just at present. It will

as the boys, in compliance with th

ponded Bob for himself and his friend. "W

d went downstairs and

mbled Joe. "He couldn't have picked out a worse minute t

hat that fellow Cassey is a double-dyed crook. He simply saw that he

growled Joe savagely, making a swing

a man turning a trick like that at the expense of a young girl who had just lost h

eem, there is evidently