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Moreover, Tom was almost.html">almost certain he had heard the
from a window and saw.html">saw.html">saw a stranger running.html">running.html">running.html">running hastily along the side
tampering with my safe?" cried Tom. He saw Bower hesitate and
out and running after the stranger he had seen departing in such
saw he was stuffing some papers into his pocket.
"Here! Come back! Stop!" ordered Tom, but the man.html">man.html">man ran on the
is in with him!" he added. "I've got to catch that fellow!" and
A BIG SPLASH
he was running after was guilty of some wrong-doing. In the first
that surrounded the Swift machine plant. Then, too, the very fact
his proximity to the safe, made Tom fear that some of his plans
strange man had them, and so he raced after him with all speed.html">speed.
"Stop! Stop!" called Tom, but the on-racing stranger did not
his men, and Jackson and some of the others came running from
were all too far away to give effective chase.
"Bower might have come with me if he had wanted to help,"
that the new helper was engaging in the pursuit, and he could
was to him, suddenly changed his course, and, noting this, Tom
the way led to a piece of swampy land that, after the recent
least; and more than one man had been caught there.
"He can't run across the swamp.html">swamp, that's sure," reflected Tom
reached the bog, and, to this end, Tom increased his speed to
the swamp, Tom was almost within reaching distance of the
Tom could not lay hands on him. Suddenly, turning around a. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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