Then you can let the sleuths have a try at the matter," Tom suggested.
"Have you any telegraph blanks here ?" Tom went inside, coming out with a pad of blanks.

Mr.Prenter addressed a dispatch to the head of a detective agency in Mobile.
"We'll get the 'bus driver to take this over to town," said Mr.Prenter, as he signed the dispatch.
"You had better send your dispatch by Nicolas, who is so faithful that he can't be pumped, and he never talks about things that he shouldn't." The Mexican was accordingly sent away in the stage.

When he returned Nicolas busied himself with getting supper and setting it on the table.
Superintendent Renshaw returned from the work in time to join the others at table.
"Mr.Reade, how are you going to protect the works to-night ?" inquired the superintendent.
"I'm going to order Foreman Corbett and twenty men to night duty," Tom answered.

"The motor boat will also be out to-night.

We'll have every bit of the wall watched by men with lanterns." "What you ought to do," suggested Treasurer Prenter, "is to light the breakwater up with electric lights.