reat experts in enacting a role.
They took a seat in the grand stand and through a messenger boy bet on
the races. They won, and they laughed and tittered in delight over their
success, and, as intimated, attracted a great deal of attention, and
they exhibited considerable money. Oscar was playing the role of a dude
with plenty of "stuff," as the vulgar phrase puts it, and Cad was
playing the role of a fast young girl who was leading the exquisite fool
to squander his roll. Well, it was a great chumming game well
played--played before a lot of men who were as avaricious as impecunious
gamblers always are. There were men there who bet and lost. There were
men there who had no money to risk, and they all thought themselves
possessed of brains, and here was a silly fool loaded with money, and
here also was a silly girl reaping a rich harvest in greenbacks from her
enamored dude, _as it appeared_, and so the game went on until a man
with a keen eye got them under his glance. He stood awhile and watched
them, and various expressions passed over his face. After a little the
man strolled away. He joined two other men, and going close to them he
said in a low tone:

"I've struck a chance to make a raise."

"Good enough," was the response.

"Yes, and it's dead easy."

"What is it?"

"I'll go over opposite the grand stand; you fellows follow me. Come up
offhand and I'll show where a big haul lies right in sight."

The rogues had struck a lead and so had the two sharp-eyed detectives
who were playing such a neat game.

"Cad," said Oscar, "we've got a bite."

"Yes, I felt the nibble."

"It's a good thing, sis, to locate a rogue."

"Indeed it is."

"We have not chummed in vain."

"So it would appear."

This little bit of side talk was carried on while the two detectives
maintained the role they were enacting, and a little while later they
saw the three join each other and beheld them as furtively they watched
their anticipated prey.

"We've got three bites, Cad."

"I see them."

"What shall we do?"

"Don't ask me to suggest, Oscar. No one can beat you in laying out
plans."

"We'll leave here."

"And learn if they follow?"

"Yes."

"That would be my idea."

"Where shall we go?"

"We will give them a chance to follow us. We will go to the beach."

Oscar and Cad did not start right off--they were too smart for that.
They were playing a great game. They did not see the three men; they did
not know the