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Sam and Dick pursued him on their bicycles, while some of the others came after on foot. Seeing this, Jim Caven took to the woods just as Dan Baxter had done, and the boys found it impossible to track him any further. "I wonder if he'll come back tonight?" said Dick, as the party returned to where they had left Seth Dickerson and Tom. "I don't think he will," answered Sam.
Then when he heard Seth Dickerson's words he fell back and his face grew deathly white. "I I don't know you," he stammered. "I seed you over to Auburn, in a pawnshop," repeated Dickerson. "It It isn't true!" gasped Caven. "I was never over to Auburn in my life. Why should I go there to a pawnshop?" "I guess you know well enough, Caven," said Tom.
"That is certainly too bad for you," said Joe. "And you can't find any trace of Caven or Malone?" "No, both of the rascals have disappeared completely. I tried to trace Caven and his broker friend in Philadelphia but it was of no use. More than likely they have gone to some place thousands of miles away." "Yes, and probably this Ball, or Malone, has joined them," put in Andrew Mallison. "Mr.
"Come ahead!" He led the way along a trail that ran through the woods and came out on a winding country road. Beyond was another patch of timber. "This way, Pat," said he. "We'll have to take to the woods again. They are too close for comfort." "Can't we climb a tree, or hide in a hollow?" questioned the confederate. "We'll see," said Caven.
"To be sure one thousand shares of the Blue Bell Mine, of Montana, said to be worth exactly fifty thousand dollars." "Phew! You're flying high, Gaff!" laughed Pat Malone. "And why not, so long as I sell the stocks?" "What did they cost you?" "Well, they didn't cost me fifty thousand dollars," and Gaff Caven closed one eye suggestively. "You bet they didn't!
As our hero looked into one of the rooms he remembered the strange men he had seen there the fellows who had talked about mining stocks. Then, of a sudden, a revelation came to him, like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. "I've got it! I've got it!" he cried. "Mr. David Ball is that fellow who called himself Malone, and Anderson is the man named Caven! They are both imposters!"
"And those were pawned in Auburn," said Sam. "Just wait and see if I am not right." A party was organized to hunt for Caven, and the captain himself went to Auburn that very evening. The hunt for the missing boy proved unsuccessful, and it may be added here that he never turned up at Putnam Hall again nor at his home in Middletown, having run away to the West.
Once open the trunk was found to contain, among other things, a bit of heavy cloth tied with a piece of strong cord. "Here we are, sure enough!" cried the captain, as he undid the package and brought to light several of the missing watches and also some of the jewelry. "I guess it is a clear case against Caven, and Pop is innocent." "I wish we could tell Pop of it," put in Dick.
"They are coming I can see them," whispered Gaff Caven. "Be as quiet as a mouse." In a moment more Joe and Bill Badger stood directly under the tree. "I think the noise came from near here," said Joe. "I agree," answered the westerner. At that moment our hero looked up and saw a man's arm circling a tree limb far over his head. "They are up there!" he shouted. "Sure?"
"How did they happen to hear of you?" questioned Joe, curiously. "I answered an advertisement in the daily paper," said Maurice Vane. "Then this man, Caven, or whatever his right name may be, came to me and said he had a certain plan for making a good deal of money. All I had to do was to invest a certain amount and inside of a few days I could clear fifteen or twenty thousand dollars."
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