"
Then Mr Packwood left to walk through the little town around Spruce
Beach, to see whether he could encounter any two worthies who answered
to the description of Leroux and Stephanoulis.
Before half-past nine, however, word came that local constables at a
little railway town a dozen miles away had arrested a couple of suspects
and were bringing them to Spruce Beach. The prisoners had been taken
while waiting for a north bound train, and had tickets all the way
through to New York.
Then Jack hastened back to Messrs. Farnum and Pollard to report what was
in the air.
"By Jupiter, Jack, I knew you had some thing strong in your mind when
you left us," gasped the shipbuilder. "But I didn't imagine you'd run
down the wretches as swiftly as that."
"We don't yet know that we've got the right hair," replied Captain Jack.
"I'm willing to wager money on it, if it comes to that," retorted Mr.
Farnum.
Before noon the two prisoners were brought into Spruce Beach. Trotter
and Packwood stopped, in a 'bus with the prisoners, to show them to Jack
at the hotel.
"That pair look rascally enough to do any dirty trick," declared Jacob
Farnum, in high disgust, as he looked over Leroux and Stephanoulis.
The prisoners were, indeed, "hard hooking.
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