Bud also had glanced at the news items of less importance, and had been

startled enough--yet not so much surprised as he would have been a few

hours earlier--to read, under the caption: DARING THIEF STEALS COSTLY

CAR, to learn that a certain rich man of Oakland had lost his new

automobile. The address of the bereaved man had been given, and Bud's

heart had given a flop when he read it. The details of the theft had not

been told, but Bud never noticed their absence. His memory supplied all

that for him with sufficient vividness.

He rolled a cigarette, lighted it, and with the paper stuffed carelessly

into his pocket he went to the car, climbed in, and drove on to

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the south, just as matter-of-factly as though he had not just then

discovered that he, Bud Moore, had stolen a six-thousand-dollar

automobile the night before.




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