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Norris turned with a start and stared Dick in the face

"How did you get possession of hiht hi up to hiive? You are bribing him to act as your spy?"

"I do not suppose there is any har a private detective"

"That depends on whether he is already a public official, and on how you

pay him, and what you pay him for"

"Ellery, those fellows have sentries and pickets and fortifications and

guns always in battle-array against us and our kind The only thing to

do is to gather hosts and ammunition on the other side"

"True But there isn't any use in fighting dishonesty with dishonor

Dick, don't lower your standard to theof ht by one of the

passing couples and he sprang to his feet

"Let's follow the streae groilder and o"

He walked hurriedly down the path, and Ellery, whose ressed by orderly steps, followed in some bewilderment An

instant before Dick's face had worn the profound air of a hty problehed to himself The stream thundered and one does not

ask a friend to shout out his minor moods, so Ellery forbore to

question

Suddenly the brook burst through overhanging cliffs of party-colored