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THE ROVER BOYS IN NEW YORK
"Do you think he'll raise a row?" Pelter was asking.
"He can't raise much of a row, with that towel bound over his mouth," replied Josiah Crabtree.
"It's lucky we had this place to come to," put in Japson. "I only hope they don't get on our trail and follow us."
"I don't think they will follow us here," said Pelter. Then followed a murmur, as he and the other broker went over the legal papers on the table.
Dick wondered what he had best do next. He gazed around the kitchen and saw a small side door, opening on an enclosed stairs leading to the second floor. He went up the stairs noiselessly.
