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THREE YOUNG RANCHMEN
"Don't imagine we are to be scared so easily," returned Chet, smartly. "We have a bigger rascal to deal with even than you," he added.
"Yo' mean Saul Mangle?"
"No, I mean Captain Hank Grady," replied the boy, without stopping to think.
"Captain Hank Grady! Wot yo' know ob him?" ejaculated Jeff Jones. "Did yo' know about him and yo' Uncle Barnaby" the colored man broke off short.
"My Uncle Barnaby!" exclaimed Chet. "What made you think of him in connection with Captain Grady?"
"Oh, I know a lot about him an' de captain." said Jeff Jones suggestively. "A heap dat maybe yo' boys would gib a lot ter know about."
