It was the second
day of their stay in London that, as they were coming back to their
hotel from a visit to a moving picture show, Joe remarked:
"Say, fellows, do you notice that man in a gray suit and a black slouch
hat across the street?"
"I see him," admitted Blake.
"Have you seen him before?" Joe asked.
"Yes, I have," said Blake. "He was in the movies with us, and I saw him
when we left the hotel."
"So did I," went on Joe. "And doesn't it strike you as being peculiar?"
"In what way?" asked Charles.
"I mean he seems to be following us."
"What in the world for?" asked the assistant.
"Well," went on Joe slowly, "I rather think we're under suspicion.
That's the way it strikes me!"
CHAPTER XIV
IN CUSTODY
Blake and Charlie nodded their heads as Joe gave voice to his suspicion.
Then, as they looked across once again at the man in the slouch hat, he
seemed aware of their glances and slunk down an alley.
"But I think he has his eye on us, all the same," observed Blake, as the
boys went into their hotel.
"What are we going to do about it?" inquired Charlie. "Shall we put up a
kick or a fight?"
"Neither one," decided Blake, after a moment's thought.
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