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`` I step on somet ` ing ? '' `` You 're only mixing him up ! '' declared Nort `` Let him take his own time , Bud . '' `` If I do he 'll be until noon giving us the facts . And if the robbers looted dad 's office , even if they did n't get the safe open , they may have lit out with a tidy sum , and we ought to take the trail after 'em . That 's what Buck came here for , likely ! To get us on the chase from this end .