The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler - or, Working for the Custom House by Francis Worcester Doughty
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him. He's a bad man."
The boy then went to bed. A week afterward, Old King Brady met Harry at police headquarters, and the boy saw by the look of triumph on his face that he had good news. "How are you feeling to-day?" he asked the boy. "Fine. My wound don't bother me at all." "I've been working hard, Harry." "So I imagine, as I haven't seen anything of you since yesterday." "La Croix's four spies have arrived in town." "What! Come from Canada?" "Yes. I saw them going up Broadway in a bunch, to-day." "Why didn't you arrest them?" "Couldn't. Had my hands full at the time." "Of what?" "Mrs. La Croix." "Did you catch her?" |
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