"
"That's good logic. I agree with you. I shall be delighted
to place these hands of mine right on that fiend's throat.
But first, will you tell me how I am going to do it?
Haven't we been trying to catch him ever since those two
men were discharged? Both of them are in this thing."
"I think you will find that there is only one now. I believe
Larry is working alone. I haven't any particular reason for
thinking this; it just sort of seems to me to be so."
"Any suggestions, Phil? I'll confess that I am at my wits' end."
"Yes, I have been thinking of a plan lately."
"What is it?"
"Have the trains searched."
"What?"
"You will remember my saying, sometime ago, that I believed the
fellow was still traveling with us and--"
"But how--where could he ride that he would not be sure
of discovery?" protested Mr. Sparling.
"He has friends with the show, that's how," answered
Phil convincingly.
"You amaze me."
"All the same, I believe you will find that to be the case."
"And you would suggest searching the trains?"
"Yes."
"When?"
"Now. No; I don't mean at this very minute. I should suggest
that tomorrow morning, say at daybreak, you send men over this
entire train.
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