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THE OUTDOOR CHUMS
"Why, no, but what makes you say that?"
"I've got a suspicion about him, that's all. Hello, Toby, everything all right?"
"Sho, Marse Frank, ebery thing am lubly an' de goose hangs high."
"How about Bluff—where is he?"
"Don't no nuffin' 'bout dat boy; he went off in de mornin' an' ain't kim back."
"Just what I feared, fellows," said Frank, "That silly chap has gone hunting up the camp of the Lasher crowd, and like as not got himself in trouble."