Part 5 (1/2)

The great stock cars were ru faster every ht of a switch la up to the roof of one of the box cars

He could hear the yard superintendent running toward hi Then I will be wholly left,” decided Teddy ”I' stock car slipped past hi up into the air, his eyes fixed on the ladder His circus training cah it had been considerably above his head The next second his fingers closed over a rung of the ladder, and there he hung, dangling in the air, with the train now rushi+ng over switches, rapidly gaining momentum as it stretched out headed for the open country

CHAPTER III

PHIL TO RESCUE

Phil Forrest was in a panic of uneasiness

No sooner had his own section started than he made the discovery that Teddy Tucker was not on board Then the lad went through the train in the hope that his co car There was no trace of Teddy

In the meantime Teddy had slowly clambered to the roof of the stock car, where he stretched hi car swaying beneath hiale, and it was all the boy could do to hold on After a while he saw a light approaching hi his way over the train toward the caboose

He soon ca There he stopped

”Well, youngster, what are you doing here?” he deht into the face of the unco to ride”

”I suppose you know you are breaking the law and that I'll have to turn you over to a police of the sort! What do you take me for? Think I'm some kind of tramp?” objected the lad ”Go on and let me alone”

The brake wet, but that, despite this, he ell dressed

”What are you, if not a trahed long and loud, but Teddy wascar than in what he said

”Wish I could do that,” ly

”What's that?”

”Nothing, only I was thinking out loud”

”Well, you'll get off at the next stop unless you can prove that you belong here”

”I won't,” protested Teddy stubbornly

”We'll see about that Come down here on the flat car behind this one, and we'll find out I see some of the show people there

Besides, you're liable to fall off here and get killed Co”

”I can't”

”Why not?”