Good afternoon." "Good afternoon, then," nodded Tom.

"Drop in again, won't you?
Any time within working hours." "Confound that fellow Reade!" muttered Ransom angrily as he rode back to Paloma.

"He knows altogether too much--or suspects it.

I shall have to call Jim Duff's attention to him!" "Why did you string the fellow so ?" asked Harry when the chums were alone once more.
"I didn't," Reade retorted.

"I came very close to giving him straight information." "Now he'll be more on his guard." "That won't do him any good," Tom yawned.