“Well, I’d seen it before, that’s all,” muttered Wacker.
“Oh, I fancy not,” said Frank.
“Oh, yes, I did. Huh! guess I did—I was with the fellow who first made it when he got it up.”
Frank was surprised. He must have shown it to the keen-eyed fellow quizzing him, for Wacker exclaimed:
“Aha—interested now, hain’t you? Tell you something more: the owner made me a duplicate of his original puzzle, and—there it is.”
And to Frank’s amazement Mr. Dale Wacker pulled from his pocket a crude copy of the wire puzzle.
It was the exact counterpart of the one Markham had furnished as a model for those now being sold broadcast by Frank’s Mail Order House.