CHAPTER I
THE FINGER OF SUSPICION
"Hello! there, Bristles!"
"Hello! yourself, Fred Fenton!"
"Why, what ails you this fine summer morning, Bristles? You don't look as jolly as you might."
"Well, I was only waiting to see if you cared to speak to me, Fred."
"Why in the wide world shouldn't I, when you're one of my chums, Bristles Carpenter?"
Andy Carpenter was known far and wide around the town of Riverport as "Bristles," on account of the...
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