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J. W. Duffield
Radio Boys in the Flying Service; or, Held For Ransom by Mexican Bandits
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338077332
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CHAPTER I
A Daring Hold-Up
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“Hands up! Quick!”
The command, barked out in sharp, staccatto tones, was emphasized by the ugly muzzle of a revolver thrust through the window of the paying teller.
It was a bright Spring morning in the town of Castleton, a thriving city of some ten thousand population, located in a prosperous section of the Middle West. As it was Saturday, there was a little more stir and animation in the streets than usual, for it was the day on which farmers and their wives of the rural district served by the town drove in to do their shopping. Already, though it was no more than eleven o’clock, there was a fair sprinkling of cars and buggies standing in the open square in front of the court house, and the number was constantly being augmented by new arrivals.