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"What did she know about him?"
"She said that she was appointed a committee of one by the Ladies' Aid
Society over there to look up the new fireman's career."
"And I suppose she ran onto some hot stuff?"
"It seems that the ex-convict, Skip Riley, had been a circus performer
once upon a time, before he took to being a burglar."
"Was burglary the crime for which he was put in prison?"
"Yes, so she says. He was an aeronaut and acrobat."
"Good! And what was his stage name? Did she say?"
"Robinson--Ben Robinson. She says that she was told that he was quite
famous in his day as a circus performer, but that he couldn't resist the
temptation to steal, and so had to quit the business, as none of the
circus proprietors would have him around."
"Did she say where she got this information?"
"Yes. It was sent to her by the warden of the penitentiary in which
Riley was confined before he came to Strongburg."
"Then her information is probably correct. Stella, thanks to you, we've
got them dead to rights.


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