"
"So it seems," admitted the colonel. "What has Master Tompkins been
doing lately?"
"That's hard to tell," replied Jack laughingly, "he does so many
things. I hear he is going to get up an opposition patrol."
"Who would he get to join it?" asked Gerald, scornfully.
"Oh, he can find plenty to do that," replied Jack. "You know he
always has plenty of money to spend."
"There's Monkey Rae and Looney Burns," said Pepper, "they would be
in it."
"And Kid Murphy," added Dick.
"I wonder--" began Jack, and stopped, seemingly lost in thought.
"What is it now, Jack?" asked Rand, "trying to put two and two
together?"
"I was," replied Jack, "but it don't seem to come out four."
"What is it this time, addition or multiplication?" asked Donald.
"Must be division, I think," laughed Jack. "I was wondering if Sam
had anything to do with the robbery of Judge Taylor's office."
"Of course not," asserted Pepper. "What would he want to do that
for?"
"I don't know," answered Jack, "or what any one else would, for
that matter.
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