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Two long arms shut sileutly doom and grasped the motionless figure

Stolen Brains

By Captain S. P. Meek

Dr. Bird, scientific sleuth extraordinary, goes after a sinister stealer of brains.


"I HOPE, Carnes," said Dr. Bird, "that we get good fishing."

"Good fishing? Will you please tell me what you are talking about?"

"I am talking about fishing, old dear. Have you seen the evening paper?"

"No. What's that got to do with it?"

Dr. Bird tossed across the table a copy of the Washington Post folded so as to bring uppermost an item on page three. Carnes saw his picture staring at him from the center of the page.

"What the dickens?" he exclaimed as be bent over the sheet. With growing astonishment he read that

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