"I'll take Billy into my confidence. Billy will spread the word,
and then we shall see what will happen."
When Billy came in Teddy called him aside and outlined his plan.
Billy returned from the conference grinning broadly, but Teddy
was serious and thoughtful.
However, he decided not to tell Phil what he had done.
Perhaps Phil might not approve of it. Phil was so peculiar
that he might visit the rival cars and tell them that
certain information they had obtained was not correct.
Be that as it may, a few hours later three car managers visited
the station, leaving orders that their cars were to be switched
off at Owls' Valley.
"That fellow, Forrest, thought he would play a smart trick on us
and slip into a town not down on his route, where he was going to
have all the billing to himself," said the manager of the yellow
car, late that evening.
"Where is Owls' Valley?" asked one of his men.
"About twenty miles west of here. It will be a short run.
He will be a very much surprised young man when he wakes up
in the morning and finds us lying on the siding with him."
The train to which the cars were to be attached was not to leave
until sometime after midnight. When it finally came in all the
advertising car crews were in bed and asleep. Teddy Tucker,
however, was not only wide awake, but outside at that.
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