. St. Nicholas [serial]. side of the board was a similar gray paper cluefastened with a time the clue showed the drawing of a bridge (Fig. 2). % C, An D ^ The only bridgelike that was aquarter of a mileaway, but off theywent up the creektill the bridgewas reached andevery crack in itsplanking examined, as well as even the crev-ices of its abutments searched. At last in ahole behind a loose stone appeared the welcomegray paper (it was always the same color), whichled them a step farther in the hunt. This stepwas a long v one, for it V. 3 carried themback almost tothe starting-place, si
. St. Nicholas [serial]. side of the board was a similar gray paper cluefastened with a time the clue showed the drawing of a bridge (Fig. 2). % C, An D ^ The only bridgelike that was aquarter of a mileaway, but off theywent up the creektill the bridgewas reached andevery crack in itsplanking examined, as well as even the crev-ices of its abutments searched. At last in ahole behind a loose stone appeared the welcomegray paper (it was always the same color), whichled them a step farther in the hunt. This stepwas a long v one, for it V. 3 carried themback almost tothe starting-place, sincethey thoughtthey recog-nized the hammock (Fig. 3). But they found there were two hammocks verymuch alike on neighboring verandas, so that a. 714 A CLUE CHASE search of both had to be made. Then while onedivision of the party looked in vain for the grayslip, the others whooped the announce-ment from the veranda they had in-vaded that it was found (pinned to theback of the valence of the hammock),and all got together quickly to try tomake out whose portrait (Fig. 4) hadbeen discovered. The drawing—as one may judge—gave a good chance for guessing, butfinally the man whom the majoritythought the victim was surrounded andheld up till out of a hip pocket came the telltale clue. By this (Fig. 5) they were di-rected to a certain tree, from the tree to a closed
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