ad set the camera up on a box in the garden. It pointed toward the main shop do

are coming in to see me on business. Act as if it was daytime. I'll stand here and receive you. Later, I'll get dad out here, Koku an

, Tom, her

ok at the staring lens. Then Tom, with a laugh, advanced to meet him, shaking hands with him. Then the lads indulged in a little skylarking. They threw snowballs at each o

her things. Later Koku, and Eradicate did some "stunts," as Tom called

ght of something," he added. "If I leave the light burning, it will scare away, before they

ou fix it?

g flashlights, you know. I'll time them to go off one after the ot

idea is-"

night. Not this particular night, but any night

e chicken coop?" asked Eradicate. "Dat

so take snap shots of any one who tries to enter the coop. So, i

as working. But the night passed without incident, rather to Tom's disappointment. However, in the morning, he developed the film of the first pi

s were thrown on the white screen. "As natur

you with a snowball!" cried his chum

aw himself walking about on the screen, as

ried Koku, as he s

ctures to show," spoke Tom. "I mean

The flashlights were also in place. Tom and Ned, the latter staying at his chum's house that week, we

sort of glow that relieved the blackness. The camera

akened by hearing the burglar alarm go off. At the same

e goes!"

a glance at the burglar-alarm indicator on the wall of the

you!" ye

n readiness for putting on quickly. Down the stairs they raced, but ere they r

ried Tom, but th

dicate!" y

t was also heard. The flashlights had ceased popping before this, and when t

what it caught. Did you see anything of the fellows, Koku, or Eradicate?" Both said they had no

in heah, Massa Tom. I kin see

picture for you to look at

were so small that Tom could not make out the features or forms of the men.

gh to use. Then the moving picture machine was set up in a dark room, and

d not stop at the shop door. Instead it went to the chicken coop, and, as the man reached that door, he began working to get it open. Of course it had all taken

was looking squarely at the camera. Of course this made his face very pl

ored man!" cried

n ordinary chicken thief,

a gasp fro

libs down by de ribber! An' to t'ink dat Samuel 'Rastus Washington Jackson Johnson,

ure, Rad?"

the startled colored man on the screen stared at the

there came another series of flashlight explosions on the screen, and there, almost as plainly as if our friends were looking at them, they saw two me

" crie

e are the two rivals of Mr. Period!

ed out!" cried K

he men running away, Tom and Ned realized that their rivals had tried to put th

a,-but, instead the camera took the