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"I'll soon be as well as ever, thanks to the good doctoring and nursing I've had." "It was too bad that the doctor came in just when he did the other day," said Joe. "We were keen to hear the rest of your story about that fellow Cassey. Has anything turned up to tell you where he is and what he is doing?" "Not a thing," replied the girl, with a tinge of sadness in her tone.
He had enough money in the bank to pay it and he had me draw it out and keep it in the house. He intended to settle the matter himself, but death came to him before he could attend to it. "I knew what his wishes were, and as soon as the funeral was over I went to see Cassey and told him that I wanted to pay off the mortgage.
"But I've heard enough already to feel sure that that fellow Cassey is a double-dyed crook. He simply saw that he had an inexperienced girl to deal with and he made the most of it." "I'd like to punch his nose for him," growled Joe savagely, making a swing in the air at an imaginary opponent. "Same here," agreed Bob, "but that wouldn't get back her four thousand.
To them they narrated what they had learned of Miss Berwick's story. Their friends shared their own indignation and were quite as keen as themselves to hear the end of the story. "What did you say the fellow's name was?" asked Herb, as the quartette walked along Main Street. "Cassey, she said it was Dan Cassey," replied Bob. "Ever hear of any one by that name?"
How fully that prophecy was carried out, and how exciting were the adventures that awaited the boys will be told in the second book of this series, to be entitled: "The Radio Boys at Ocean Point; Or, The Message That Saved the Ship." Herb and Jimmy were as delighted as their chums when they heard of the way that Cassey had been trapped and forced to make restitution.
"Do you know anything about him?" "Well, if he's the man we think he is, we don't know much good about him," said Bob, and he proceeded to tell Brandon about Dan Cassey and the mean way he had tricked Nellie Berwick and stolen her money. "So you see you're not the only one looking for the stuttering man," said Bob, in conclusion. "We'd like pretty well to find out where he is ourselves."
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