"What's the rush?" asked Ned. "Playing cops and robbers?"
That was a game Tom and Ned had enjoyed in their younger
days.
"I--I'm runnin' away!" panted Harry. "I--I seen
something!"
"You saw something?" repeated Ned. "What was it--a ghost?"
and he laughed, thinking the boy would do the same.
"No, it wasn't no ghost!" declared Harry, casting a look
over his shoulder. "It was a wild elephant that I saw, and
it's down in a big yard with a fence around it."
"Where's that?" asked Ned. "The circus hasn't come to town
this evening, has it?"
"No," answered Harry, "it wasn't no circus. I saw this
elephant down in the big yard back of one of Mr. Swift's
factories."
"Oh, down there, was it!" exclaimed Ned. "What was it
like?"
"Well, I was walking along the top of the hill," explained
Harry, "and there's one place where, if you climb a tree,
you can look right down in the big fenced-in yard. I guess
I'm about the only one that knows about it."
"I don't believe Tom does," mused Ned, "or he'd have had
that tree cut down. He doesn't want any spying, I take it.
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