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Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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public's convenience, had moved the Bartlett car beyond the main
entrance in the interest of late comers and it was in this vacated space
that the second medley of blue and nickel was now thoughtlessly parked.
No cars came along after it so there it remained with a little group of
admirers about it.

The few loiterers in the lobby glanced curiously at the two young men.
These strangers strode in laughing in a way of mutual banter, as if
their sudden decision to see the show was quite amusing to themselves.

No one recognized them; they must have come from out of town. They wore
khaki suits, with flapping brimmed hats of a color to match and their
faces were brown with the wholesome, permanent tan of outdoor life. They
seemed greatly amused with themselves and their breezy manner and
negligee which smacked of the woods attracted the attention of
Bridgeboro's staff of unpaid censors who hung out in and about the
Lyric's lobby. But little, apparently, did the strangers care what was
said and thought of them.

One of them bought the tickets, to the hearty indignation of the other,
and they disappeared into the terrible fastnesses along Harrowing
Highway where they tumbled boisterously into a couple of seats off the
center aisle, "right within pistol shot of the bandit," as one of them
laughingly remarked to the other.

In the last reel the bandit was captured by a sheriff's posse, the young
school teacher from the east whom he had villainously kidnapped was set
free and went to live on a ranch with the hero who also carried several
pistols, and the detective whom the millionaire had sent from the east
(and who likewise carried several pistols) became a train robber and
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