CHAPTER XIX
MAROONED IN A FREIGHT CAR
"Catch him! Catch him! Catch that man!"
The parade was just passing when Phil shouted out the words
that attracted all eyes toward him. It was to a policeman that
he appealed.
The lad had discovered a shock of red hair above the heads of the
people, and was gradually working his way toward the owner of it,
when all at once Red Larry discovered him.
Red pushed his way through the crowd and disappeared down an
alleyway, the policeman to whom the boy had appealed making no
effort to catch the man.
"What kind of a policeman are you, anyway?" cried Phil
in disgust. "That fellow is a crook, and we have been on the
lookout for him for the last four weeks."
"What's he done?"
"Done? Tried to poison one of the elephants, and a lot of
other things."
"The kid's crazy or else he belongs to the circus," laughed
a bystander.
Phil Forrest did not hear the speaker, however, for the boy had
dashed through the crowd and bounded into the alley where he had
caught a glimpse of a head of red hair a moment before.
But Larry was nowhere in sight. He had disappeared utterly.
"I was right," decided Phil, after going the length of the alley
and back.
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