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Title: The boy hikers homeward bound
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Fraser, Chelsea Curtis, 1876-
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Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ving, engineering head rascals that theprisons need to hold the most. I hope we getthis king fire-bug before he takes the alarm andskips. I hope so too, sir, responded Jack earnestly.Our boys have promised to keep quiet, alsoMr. Wigginholt, till the whole thing is woundup. So I dont see how Mr. Spiess will be ableto get any warning. Red and Gus are sure fixed so they cant getword to him, put in Joe. And I cautioned the station-agent to keep hismouth shut, supplemented the sheriff. It islucky there were no passengers at the depotwaiting to take the train on which Red and Gusplanned to get away, and likewise lucky thatthe train was late and did not arrive until wehad left the scene, otherwise it would have beenexceedingly difficult to keep the news of the ar-rest out of the newspapers, and of course such athing would be disastrous. Spiess would besure to take alarm at once, afraid of a confes-sion on the part of his hirelings, and by the timewe had called on him his cage would be empty.
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SUDDENLY HIS FEET STRUCK THE FAT BOYS BODY. UP FLEW GUSSARMS WILDLY. —Page 274. GETTING THE KING-BUG 283 About half-past ten their train pulled into theGrand Central Station in New York City. Thelittle party proceeded directly to the Post-Office,where, after a short wait, they were closetedin the private apartments of the U. S. DistrictAttorney. This gentleman listened attentivelyto their stories, which were substantiated by theletter of Joes, also a signed confession fromGus Wettlaufer. He then wrote a warrant forthe arrest of William Spiess, and handed thedocument over to a Federal marshal with in-structions to serve it without delay, the threecallers accompanying him. On their way to the Knox Building, wherethe chief conspirator had his office, it wasplanned that the interview should be made atthe noon hour, as Joe gave it as his idea thatSpiess would probably remain in his apartmentswhile his stenographer was out to lunch, and asurprise could thus be easier effected. Thisplan wa

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