To capture the train robber meant a reward and promotion.
Ted stood on the corner opposite the detectives and watched proceedings.
When the man in the checked suit had gone about ten paces beyond the
detectives, one of them started after him, and the other signaled the
policeman in uniform to cross over.
The detective called to the man in the check suit to halt, but instead
of obeying he started to run.
But he had not gone more than ten feet when he was seized by the
detective, and was dragged back to the corner.
"Take him to the box, Casey," said the detective, turning his prisoner
over to the policeman.
At that moment the two detectives were joined by a third, and they
entered into an earnest conversation, drawn closely together and looking
over their shoulders occasionally in the direction of the house into
which the man in the checked suit was about to enter when arrested.
"I have stumbled right into it," said Ted to himself. "The check-suit
man is the spy for the train robbers, and their headquarters are in that
house.
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