Part 5 (2/2)

He and Nedsoed at this work the next day, when he noticed a shadow pass across an openHe looked up to see Ned

”hello, Tom!” cried his chum ”Have you heard the news?”

”No, what news? Has Andy Foger fallen out of his airshi+p?”

”No, but there are a whole lot of Custolers”

”Still at it, eh? Shopton can't see new turned up?”

”Yes I just met Mr Whitford He's back on the case and he has several oods caain”

”How, by airshi+p?”

”No, by horse and wagon A lot of cases of valuable silks iht, were slipped over the border soht Then they caht, labeled as calico, and when they reached this town they were taken away in a wagon”

”But how did they get here?”

”On the railroad, of course, but the freight people had no reason to suspect theht station?”

”That's what the customs authorities want to find out They think there's sooods are stored and reshi+pped That's why so lers hot-footed”

CHAPTER V

THE RAID

To, and cah the open

”Ned,” said the young inventor, ”there's so to think so myself, Tom But just what do you lers should pick out a place like Shopton--a small town--for their operations, or part of them, when there are so many better places We're quite a distance froer an's alley, or soansville, this state, was the place I once saw Tom Snedecker mail Andy a letter addressed to there But what has that to do with it?”

Toestick he pointed out the city of Logansville

”That isn't very far from the Canadian border; is it, Ned?” he asked

”Say, what are you driving at, Toht on the border between New York and Canada, according to that ood ht

And, look here There's the town of Montford, in Canada, alansville”