These three boys approached warily in the dusk of
the evening.
"Is that the way they're going in?" asked one of the trio, as he saw the
cow stable door.
"That's the way all but one of 'em is going in," was the answer. "There's
going to be one vacant place at the dinner."
"Whose?" asked another of the trio, of the one who seemed to be
the leader.
"Ned Wilding's."
"Are you sure he will come along alone so we can grab him?"
"Alone or not we'll get him. In fact we did think one time of making a
rush through the cow stable door, after we found out about their traps at
the other entrances. But that door is so narrow we couldn't get in quick
enough but what they could stand us off. So we decided on this plan.
We'll capture their presiding officer. It'll be like the play of Hamlet
with Hamlet left out."
"What you going to do with him?"
"Denny Thorp has that in charge. I think he's going to carry him to some
vacant house."
"What are we to do?" asked the member of the trio who had first spoken.
"We're to stay here until the rest of the crowd arrives, and watch what
happens.
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