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"But these," said Billy "We can't leave these here"

"Tie 'eun," she said "I'll bet they don't coained both her coe trussed up the two tramps An elephant couldn't have forced the bonds they placed upon them Then they carried theain Mrs Shorter barred the cellar door

"I reckon they won't get out of there very fast," she said "And now you two boys run along Got anyfor a reply she counted twenty-five dollars from the roll she had tucked in the front of her waist and handed them to Billy

"Nothin' doin'," said he; "but t'anks just the saot to take it," she insisted "Let ivin' it to my boy, Eddie--please," and the tears that caenerous words

"Aw, all right," said Billy "I'll take it an' pass it along to Eddie if I ever ed "I don't want you to be caught--even if you are a h"

"I'm not," said Billy; "but de law says I aoes"

He turned toward the doorith Bridge, calling a goodbye to the woman, but as he stepped out upon the veranda the dust of a fast- automobile appeared about a bend in the road a half-e "Here they come!"

The woman brushed by them and peered up the road

"Yes," she said, "it must be them Lordy! What'll we do?"

"I'll duck out the back way, that's what I'll do," said Billy

"It wouldn't do a ood," said Mrs Shorter, with a shake of her head "They'll telephone every farmer within twenty et you sure Wait! I got a scheh the little parlor, out of a doorway into so that was half hall and half storeroo to the upper story, and she waddled up the the two men to follow her