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SOMETHING OF A MYSTERY
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As they came to the next corner Bob chanced to look back. He hung behind his chatting companions for a moment or two.

"That's queer again," he said to himself.

He had seen a man turn into the Dolby place. It was only a glimpse he had of the fellow, but Bob was quite startled.

"Hey, what are you lagging behind for?" called out Sammy, briskly.

"Pshaw!" mused Bob, "I've got my head so full of that tramp, I take every stranger I see for him. It couldn't have been him I just saw go into Dolby's. And if it was, what of it?"

With that Bob let the subject drift out of his mind. He joined his chums, who were gaily talking over their plans for the big bonfire on the beach of Rainbow Lake that night.