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Clyde opened his eyes “Say, Isaac,” he whispered “You didn’t make the rescue this time”

“I’ot you into this,” said Isaac Bell “I wish I had insisted you take your chances with Edison”

“At least Edison wouldn’t kill me”

“Did they take your machine?”

Clyde answered slowly, in a whisper so faint that Bell had to ed contraption I slapped together with baling wire It will drive their scientists nuts Joke’s on the Acrobat I fooled hiain And I kept the new plans— Isaac!”

“What?”

“You have to take care of the plans”

“I will”

“You have to promise”

“I promise Where are they?” Bell asked

“Right here”

“Where?”

Clyde raised his hand as if to point at his head as Bell re he held it in hisPictures A lot of good that would do They would die with hi to pat his chest, then hastily to cover his hed, a harsh sound that wracked his body head to toe The cough ended abruptly with a sudden intake of breath and a long sigh, and before Clyde Lynds could tell Isaac Bell where he had put his plans, the young scientist was dead

Bell closed Clyde’s eyelids and spread a handkerchief over his face Mindful of his pro

“Looking for so, Detective?”