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-do-well, who conducted a small blacksmith shop some dist
s Gid drew in his reins and the conveyance came to a stop. Roy r
's been happening?"
and went on rapidly to
aluable jewelry has vanished entirely." Roy watched Fan Harding closely as he spoke and thought that he saw him change color. It might
th jewelry in it,
it?" asked Fan Harding, with a
had just joined him. Jimsy looked despondent and worried. A glance a
suddenly. "It's awfully queer. Miss Bancroft remarked when she
road while we were unconscious?" q
ther answered with a g
ter the smash-up. I was on my way to Gid Gibbons's blacksmith shop to get a part of my motor-cycle fixed
with a grin; "no one never
," went on Fan, "and so I left it at Gid's place a
ot mentioned his little excursion into the wood with the pistol
archers. By this time, Jess, under the doctor's ministrations, was able to sit up. Her face was pale as marble, partl
was driven into the group by one of the employees of her husband's estate. As gently as possible, after first exp
the family for years," she exclaimed. "I would not have lost it
mamma," res
th a fine tooth comb, mu
inged with some disgust. But Gid merely showed his yellow fangs, in what he int
. Bancroft of her daughter, after Jess had been tend
as the reply. "I felt to see if it was safe unde
nt, of course," put in Mrs. Bancroft. "And n
said Fan; "somebody may have taken th
is face flushing angrily. There had been
arding directly in the eyes. His dropped und
k in Roy, angrily. There was a hard note of de
t him quickly and the
s look odd, y
say another w
could stop her. Gid Gibbon's daughter watched the angry girl with
ean anything,
s that there is a mystery here, and perhaps some day it will be solved.
n undertone to Gid, he slunk off, accompanied by his disreputable blacksmith companion and the latter's daughter,
is years. A few moments after the departure of Fan and his strange companions therefore, Mrs. Bancroft's auto, towing the injured car by means of a rope broug
sters, announcing a reward for the recovery of the jewels, were hurriedly struck off at Sandy Bay printing office, and distributed throughout the tow
ut feel that any logical person reading the things would come to the conclusion that Ro
indignation. But worse was to come; private detectives also came and questioned and cross-questioned him at great length. Roy could not but feel
" together as freely as before, but they somehow all felt that the air was charged with some influence that made thi
the affair. Recalling his strange visit to the wood, she even visited the place by herself one day to see if she
cess, for she had almost allowed herself to believe that she would, in some queer fa
with the right wing of the monop
ed Peggy to herself
urroundings. All at once she became aware that two men had em
eat a little quicker as she gazed. There was
astonishment, that she knew him. More astonishing still, the
the butler at M
u doing here?" exclaimed Pegg
eggy could now see was an employe about
doin' a bit of trappi
in Morgan, a stout, puffy-face
u might say, miss. I 'ope
ved to find that the two men were not strangers. "I
edies a flyin' round like bloomin'-bloomin' pertater bugs, hif yo
" "It's not much. If there was a blacksmith shop round here I co
more than a few paces, as you might say, from 'ere.
stupid of me not to have thought of
nd his companion as guides, she set off across the fields for Gid's shop, which she now recalled was a s
ked, suddenly, "has anything more
hment the man star
ns, miss, that there ain't been no
t appearing to note
s," put in Morgan's compa
d Peggy. "I do wish it c
gan, mopping his puffy face. He seemed to h
oad through a sliding gate. He pointed to a long, low, ramshackle structure at the cross-roads. Beside it stoo
off at a brisk pace, holding the broken rod in her hands. She almost droppeanning Harding, in overalls and jumper. Suddenly he became
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