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The High School Boys’ Canoe Club

CHAPTER XIV
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Your son appears to have been headed for the lake when our dog overtook him and pinned him down.

As a lawyer, Mr.Ripley, what would you conclude from the evidence thus presented ?" "Call that dog away!" ordered Mr.Ripley.
"Willingly, sir," Dick agreed, "now that you have had opportunity to look into all the evidence that we found.

Harry, will you do the honors ?" Smiling slightly, Hazelton stepped forward to speak to Towser.
That four-footed guardian of the camp displayed some resentment at first over the idea of letting go of Fred's shirt.

After a little, however, Hazelton succeeded in getting his dog away and tied to a tree.
Fred rose to his feet, his face fiery red while he trembled visibly.
"What is the meaning of this, young man ?" demanded Lawyer Ripley.
"The meaning," choked the lawyer's son wrathfully, "is just this: I was coming by this place this morning in the runabout, when I heard a good deal of coarse laughter down here.

I knew the voices weren't those of boys, and so I knew that something must be up.


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