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"All right. Thanks."
Kelly drove on.
"Do you know what happened to that plug, Carlos?" he asked, as they
reached the open road and bowled forward at a good speed.
"I've got a pretty good guess. It was not altogether an accident, eh?"
"An accident, well, it was, in a sense. I happened to be near that
machine with a monkey wrench and in some way was careless enough to
let it put that plug out of business."
Both men laughed heartily, as if Kelly's rascally act had been the most
amusing thing in the world.
"You are a genius," declared Le Roy.
"Well, I reckon I know a thing or two," was the modest response;
"besides, I need that money."
"But what is your plan?"
"I'll tell you as we go along. Drive fast, but don't keep so close to
that other car that they can get sight of us."
"Not much fear of that. They had a long start of us and are out of
sight now."
"So much the better. It doesn't interfere with my plans a bit, provided
they take the same road back."
"What do you mean to do?"
"Are you good with a shovel?" was the cryptic reply.
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