Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. Bob and David set up in the wholesale fruit business on Sixth Avenue. They find the best tree yet, and oranges that break the record. follow the policeman, and find out how he had got hold of it, but the more astute David pulled him back. "We don't know anything about this, young man," said he, unlocking the door and making Bob re-enter the store. The officer and Mark and the crowd passed on, to Bob's disappointment. It's good fun to follow any prisoner to the station, and when that prisoner is your enemy, HY, he has my tree!" said Bob, and, boylike, was going out to it is hard lines to be prevented by a young man only twice as old as you are. Bob's usually sweet nature was roiled, and he said, angrily: "You ain't my master. I want to see what they're going to do to dad." "Yes, and be called in as a witness, and prevented from attending to business tomorrow. We don't want to know anything about that old man. He'll probably tell the cop that the three of us were mixed up in his theft, so the more we keep out of it, the better for us. See?" Bob saw, but he was not quite convinced. "What shall we do, then?" "Oh," said David, complainingly, "I suppose we've got to delay this orange business long enough to go to that florist's store, and tell him that we've read in the papers that the tree his boy sold us was valuable, and we meant to bring it back, but it has been stolen." It was now Bob's turn to be wise. Unused as he was to city ways, he scented danger in this. "That won't do at all, David. They'll think we're waiting to have 'em increase the reward, the way those what-you-call'ems, the pirates that stole Miss Stone--" "Brigands," supplied David. "Yeah, Hank Edson told me about it. He said that at first they said they'd give...
