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THE CRAZY ORDERS
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threshold of the parlor. He made out a figure dimly, standing by a chair.
"That you, Mr. Stiggs?" he observed. "Pretty dark here. Hold on—what is this?"
Ralph started back. The figure behind him had made a jump and had seized either arm of the youth by the wrist.
At the same moment a second person sprang from the shadows behind Ralph. A rope encircled the young leverman's body, and Ralph Fairbanks was a prisoner.
