But the next morning something happened which showed Scout Harris
in a new light. Going to the post office early in the morning, he saw
a sign posted on the bulletin board and he read it with lively interest.
$250.00 REWARD
for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
thieves who stole two motorcycles from the yard of Chandler's
Motorcycle Repair Shop in Baxter City.
The machines are Indian models bearing license plates 2570
and 92632. Both machines are comparatively new.
Communicate with Austin Sawyer,
County prosecutor, County of Borden, Baxter City.
This notice had evidently been brought down by the mail driver
early in the morning and several distinguished citizens of Everdoze
were gathered about commenting on it. It seemed certain that none of
the Everdoze dozers had heard the motorcycles and surely no one in the
village would have been any the wiser for seeing those quick, tiny
flashes, which told so much to the scout.
"I heerd somethin' but 'twan't no motorcycles," said Nathaniel Knapp;
"'twas a auto or I'm crazy."
Then spoke Beriah Bungel, sticking his thumbs into his suspenders so
that his rusty-colored coat flapped open showing his imposing badge,
"They wouldn' never come this way, they wouldn', when they got th'
highway ter go on.
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