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Type in the content of your new pa Page 54 “Okay, okay” you blurt out. “I’ll tell you. Just get that knife away.” “That’s better.” Grimstone motions his assistants to back off. You lead Grimstone and the others out to the tree where you lost the diamonds. While Grimstone and you watch, his men crawl around, yelping with delight whenever they find one of the sparkling gems. Soon they can’t find any more. “Do you think they have them all?” Grimstone asks you. “I think so.” “Then you’re free to go. Show us how you climbed the tree and dropped over the fence. Just keep completely quiet and you’ll be safe as you were before you met me. But if you talk, we’ll learn about it, and then it will be lights out for you.” Without bothering to answer, you leap up and grab a branch. “Here come the dogs!” Kenny jeers. But you’re already up the tree and over the fence Back home, you decide that it’s definitely time to talk to the police. You call Chief Ludhorn and tell him the whole story. At his suggestion you arrange to stay with a cousin who lives several hundred miles away until Grimstone’s gang is broken up. A few days later Chief Ludhorn calls to tell you that Grimstone was shot by one of his own henchmen. “Can you imagine,” the chief exclaims, “the murderer claims he thought he was shooting at a ghost!” The End ge here.