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In a little village which he had glimpsed froeneral store and bought a few blocks of

sli matches and a couple of pounds of sliced bacon, a

loaf of stale bread, and two small cans of baked beans He stuffed

them all into the pocket of his overcoat, and went out and hunted up a

long-distance telephone sign It had not taken him more than an hour to

walk to the town, for he had only to follow a country road that branched

off that way for a couple of eneral store and a couple of saloons and a blackse but had gone no further

than to hang out a sign that gasoline was for sale there It was all

very sordid and very lifeless and altogether discouraging in the drizzle

of late afternoon Bud did not see half a dozen hus on his way

to the telephone office, which he found was in the post office

He called up San Francisco, and got the chief of police's office on the

wire, and told them where they would find the men who had robbed that

jewelry store of all its diamonds and some other unset jewels Also he

mentioned the car that was stolen, and that was now stalled and waiting

for soive it a tow