it on the market. Now you are a smart boy, and I will give you
one guess to see if you can tell me what we were talking about.
Tell me what you think he has invented."

Porky thought a moment with a deep frown on his face.

"It's a patent medicine he has invented," he ventured finally.

"That's a good guess," said Ledermann. "Such a good guess that I
think you must have heard some of our talk."

"I didn't, honest," said Porky. "Couldn't you see I was asleep?
What do you suppose I care about your old patent medicine? So
long as you ain't policemen, let me go. I want to go home!"

"You shall go," said Ledermann, scowling in the direction of
Adolph, "but I am afraid you might follow us and find out about
the medicine. If you stay right here for a while, why, we will
go away, and you will never know to whom you have been talking in
this pitch dark. So we will just get you to do that much for us.
And if you tell any one how you came to be here, or what we have
said to you, we will come back and kill you and kill all your
people!"

He hissed the awful threat in the boy's ear, and shutting off
the flashlight, he took a cord from his pocket, and wound it
tightly around the boy's wrists and ankles, tying it in a
peculiar knot. Then with a handkerchief he gagged him.

"Now," he said to Porky, "you can get that cord off and the gag