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men with guns. Four of them. They were unsavory-looking fellows.

“Somebody,” said Park, eyeing them, “must have made a raid on the State pen.”

The remark did not make Park popular.

“Shall I shoot them now, Jerry?” asked the bandaged man.

“Naw, the blood might leak out of the back, and somebody might notice it,” said Jerry.

Park grinned at them foolishly. For a moment, he thought it was another gag. The talk was too
bloodthirsty to sound real.

But after Park examined the men intently for a few moments, his hair began to have an absurd sensation
of wishing to stand on end. The talk was real, and they meant it.

Park was just beginning to get thoroughly scared when Attorney Martha Colby kicked him on the shin.

“You big clown!” she said.

Park jumped, barked in pain, grabbed his shin. It was a wonder the involuntary behavior didn't get him
shot.

“Ouch! What's the idea?” he blurted.

“I am not in the mood for practical jokes!” Attorney Colby informed him. “I came here on serious
business.”

“This,” said Park, “is no joke.”

Attorney Colby stamped a foot. “I know better. I knew you were an irresponsible specimen the minute I
saw you. No wonder your father willed you a guardian.”

“Oh, my, oh, my!” said Park. “It's real, I tell you.”
“Don't be silly.”

Two of the men with guns laughed loudly. One of them said, “Hey, the dame doesn't know which end is
up, does she?”

Attorney Martha Colby stared at the speaker. It dawned on her that the thing was no prank, no practical
joke. The guns were real, and the unpleasant intentions of the men were real.

Martha became quite pale.



THE men, five of them altogether—the long one must be up front driving the truck—and all with guns,
now went about the business of searching Park, and looking at Martha appreciatively and remarking that
probably she did not have any lethal weapons hidden under her frock. Martha's frock fitted her rather
flatteringly. The young woman became red with indignation.