Get out, Kittymunks.

I'm afraid of you--too tough for me." Flummers waved Whittlesy into oblivion, and continued: "Old Witherspoon gave up his check for twenty thousand, and there the reward stops, for Mrs.Brooks won't give anything for having her husband caught.

It has been whispered in the _Star_ office that Henry Witherspoon had something to do with the detection of Brooks, and made Stavers promise that he would give half the reward to charity.

But I don't believe it.

Why should he want to give up ten thousand?
But there's a mystery in it somewhere, and the first thing you know papa'll get on the track of it.