"
"Yes, but how will you do this so no one will see?"
"I'll tell you. After the act is over they roll the net up and
carry it out. It is dumped just outside the pad room, where it
is picked up by one of the property wagons later in the evening.
It's in the same place every night."
"I think somebody may see us do it."
"No danger. Keep cool; that's all. We'll get even with
those fellows. We have got to before we can carry out
the other plans we have talked over. They are too sharp.
Sooner or later they will get wise to us, and we've got to
get them out of the way before we go any further. The work
must be done in a natural sort of way, so that no suspicion
is aroused."
"Yes, that's so. But what about the others? You want to hurt
them, too?"
"I don't care, so long as we get the right one, how many get
their bumps."
"That's right. But only one of them is on trapeze. What you do
about other?"
"It is the tall one that I want most. He's got to be put out of
the running. It won't kill him, but it will lay him up in a
hospital for the rest of the season, and that's enough for us.
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