"
"I wonder," hazarded Pete Lowry, who had come down and joined the group, "if
that wasn't Bill Holmes with the camera? He was a lot more friendly with Ramon
than he tried to let on."
"The point is," Luck broke in, "that they took advantage of my holdup scene to
pull off the robbery. I can see how the cashier would fall for a retake like
that, especially since he don't know much about picture-making. Gather up the
props, boys, and let's go home. I'm going to get the rights of this thing."
"You've got it now," the sheriff informed him huffily. "Think I been loading
you up with hot air? I was sent out to round you up--"
"Forget all that!" snapped luck. "I don't know as I enjoy having you fellows
jump at the notion I'm a bank-robber--or that if I had robbed a bank I would
have come right back here and gone to work. What kind of a simp do you think I
am, for gosh sake? Can you see where anyone but a lunatic would go like that
in broad daylight and pull off a robbery as raw as that one must have been,
and not even make an attempt at a gateway? I'll gamble Applehead, here,
wouldn't have fallen for a play as coarse as that was if he was sheriff yet.
He'd have seen right away that the camera part was just the coarsest kind of a
blind.
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