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`` And the yarn is going to make the biggest and best midsummer sensation that the ` Blade ' has ever had ! '' Mr. Pollock and Len Spencer remained at camp for something like an hour and a half , enjoying a trout luncheon before they left . It was four o'clock in the afternoon when editor and reporter reached the `` Blade '' office . At five o'clock the `` Blade '' put out a bulletin , around which a crowd collected in no time . The crowd grew to such proportions that the policeman on the beat tried in vain to make it `` move on . '' That bulletin read : `` Lake Tragedy All a Tremendous Hoax : Read the ` Blade 's ' six o'clock extra . '' At a few minutes before six o'clock Len Spencer began to arrange one of the street windows of the `` Blade '' office .