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`` It 's simple enough , to be sure , '' observed the boy . `` Just give Gabe an extra chance to-morrow morning to slip into that parlor again . He 's got the habit , I guess , and ca n't resist , if he sees an opening . Then , at noon , on his way home , why , of course , he 'll stop at the big oak to add what he took to the others . You will be hiding right there with me and we can give Gabe the surprise of his life . '' `` I should think that would be a splendid idea , Fred , '' Miss Muster said , nodding her head approvingly . `` I suppose that it would be what they say in the newspaper accounts of an arrest in the big cities , ` caught with the goods on ! ' ''