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"it's got the bar down in place. Listen and see
if you can catch a sound from inside."

A minute passed with both straining their
hearing to the utmost--Perk even laid his head
ocr>   against the closed door so as to better catch any;
fix>   against the closed door so as to better catch any
suspicious sound from within.

"Huh! guess they ain't nothin' doin', partner,"
he hissed in a disappointed tone, "thought
I did get a little ruslin' sound, like paper bein'
crumpled up when you're a'makin' a fire, but
don't hear it no longer."

"Paper, you say?" snapped Jack uneasily, "I
ocr>   don't like that any too much,"
fix>   don't like that any too much."

"Why not?" asked the other, evidently at a
loss to understand why such a simple little thing
like that could annoy any one--what if the man
at bay figured on setting fire to the hidden little
retreat he had arranged here close to the lonely
lake where he could slip away whenever he felt
like shunning those society people over at
crowded Miami--he surely had no intention of
cremating himself and they could nab him if he
started to make off.

"Paper--don't you know what he was doing
when we peeped in--that book ought to be worth
its weight in gold to us as evidence and that stack
ocr>   of papers thai he was looking through--if he's
fix>   of papers that he was looking through--if he's
given enough time he may put a match to the
bunch and destroy everything that could be used

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