"The fellow brought it to us!"
Will took it into his hand and made a careful examination of it.
"Do you think this is the one we are after?" he asked.
"Holy Moses!" exclaimed Sandy. "You don't think there are two
Little Brass Gods, do you? One seems to have kept us pretty busy!"
"I've heard of their traveling in pairs," Thede suggested.
"Is this the man who made the search of the house?" asked Will of
George.
"That is one of them!" was the reply. "The other seemed to be a
man in the employ of this man. He was dressed like a trapper and
acted like one. They quarreled over some suggestion made by this
man and the one whom I took to be a guide went away in a rage."
"You are sure he didn't find what he was looking for?"
"Dead sure!"
"Then there are two Little Brass Gods!" insisted Tommy.
"Yes, and I guess the one we want is the one we haven't got!" Will
said.
"I don't see how this fellow could have the one containing the last
will of Simon Tupper," Tommy argued. "Can you open the tummy of
the Little Brass God, Will?" asked Sandy.
"Mr. Frederick Tupper showed me how to do the trick," Will answered.
"Then why don't you see whether this is the right one or not?"
asked Sandy. "If you can open it, it's the one; if you can't, it
isn't the one!"
"Wise little boy!" exclaimed Will taking the ugly image into his
hands again.
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