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"Oh, of course not!" replied Sandy. "Ventner had nothing to do with
cutting the ladder. That fellow will land in state's prison if he
keeps on trying to murder boys by sawing ladder rungs!"
"I had forgotten that,' said Canfield.
"Well, don't forget that this man Ventner is playing the chief
villain's role in this drama!" Tommy advised. "And another thing you
mustn't forget," the boy continued, "is that you're not to say a word
to him that will inform him that he is suspected."
"I think I can remember that!" replied the caretaker.
The boys prepared a hasty supper and then, suit cases in hand, started
for the little railway station. There they inquired about the arrival
and departure of trains, bought tickets, and made themselves as
conspicuous as possible about the depot.
"Keep your eye out for the third boy," George chuckled, as the lads
walked up and down the platform.
"Don't get excited about the third boy," Will replied. "We'll find
him when the right time comes!"
"There's Ventner!" exclaimed Tommy as the detective came rushing down
the platform. "Of course the good, kind gentleman would want to bid
us farewell!"
"I'd like to crack him over the coco!" exclaimed Sandy.
"I'll bet he's got some kind of a fake story to tell," suggested Will.
"He looks like a man who had been working his imagination overtime!"
"News of the two boys!" shouted the detective as he came up smiling.
CHAPTER X
THE BOY IN THE "EMPTY"
"Didn't I tell you," whispered Will, "that he is there with a product
of his imagination? If you leave it to him, the two boys we're in
search of are somewhere on the Pacific slope!"
"He must think we're a lot of suckers to take in any story he'll
tell!" whispered Tommy. "A person that couldn't get next to his game
ought to be locked up in the foolish house!"
"I've just heard from a railway brakeman," Ventner said, rushing up to
the boys with an air of importance, "that the two lads you are in
search of were seen leaving a box car at a little station in Ohio. I
don't just recall the name of the station now, but I can find it by
looking on the map! It seems the lads left here on the night following
their departure from the breaker, and stole their passage to this little
town I'm telling you about."
"Good thing you came to the depot," declared Will. "We should have
been out of town in ten minutes more."
"Where is this town?" asked George, thinking it best to show great
interest in the statement made by the detective.
"It's a little place on the Lake Erie & Western road!" was the answer.
The detective took a railroad folder from his pocket and consulted a
map. It seemed to take him a long time to decide upon a place, but he
finally spread the map out against the wall of the station and laid
his finger on a point on the Lake Erie & Western railroad.
"Nankin is the name of the place. Strange I should have forgotten the
name of the place. They were put out of the car at Nankin, and are
believed to have started down the railroad right of way on foot."
"But you said they were seen leaving the car at Napkin!" Tommy cut in.
"Now you say they were put out of the car!"
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