Part 30 (2/2)
”Monkey!” cried Jack ”I wish I had been there----”
”Wouldn't have done you any good,” said Donald ”He was too quick for us”
”Was any one with him?” asked Jack
”Only Sam Tompkins”
”Ah!” returned Jack ”What did I tell you?”
”Don't know,” replied Pepper; ”you tell us so s that we can't remember them all What did you tell us this time?”
”About Monkey Rae and Sam Tompkins, and the queer coins you picked up in the road that day”
”I believe you did say so about Monkey and the coins,”
admitted Donald, ”but I no paid ot to do with the present excitement?” asked Rand
”Listen to this,” exclaiht to read a circular that he drew from his pocket
”Three hundred dollars reward Escaped from jail Three hundred dollars will be paid for the arrest and detention of one James Rae, alias 'Limpy,' who escaped from the jail at Melton on June fifth
Said Rae is about forty years old, stoutly built, and five feet eight inches in height Has smooth face, red hair, and walks with a limp James Robinson, Sheriff”
”W-hy, t-t-that must be M-M-Monkey Rae's father,” sta ”I kneay somewhere, but I didn't knoas in prison”
”Shure, there's lots of things ye don't know, me darlint,” interjected Gerald
”And he is the man ith Monkey on the river,” added Rand
”And the man that was in the boat the other day,” put in dick
”I hope they catch him!” said Pepper vindictively
”Go for hied Gerald
”And that is what Monkey stole the fish for,” continued Pepper
”Of course it was,” replied Jack ”Didn't I tell you there was so back of this monkey business?”
”But I no see it yet,” remarked Donald
”Of course you don't,” said Jack ”You want it explained with a diagrae Taylor's office, and Monkey and Sa in the woodshiot to do with the coins?” dee's office and lost the this thing out ever since the night ere in the judge's office You see, there was suspicion of some of us and I wanted to clear it off It's all as clear as day now”