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Certainly if the Wolf had it, it had gone off for a little airing, because as the boys came out of the Colonel's office they saw Captain DuChassis being driven out of the fairgrounds in an automobile. They could scarcely give chase, and they had been left out of the raid that was planned.
They were still talking, "stallin' along" as Porky said afterwards, when a group of people came out of the inner office. Colonel Bright led the way, his daughter on his arm. "Yes, indeed," he was saying to the doctor, "she will be all right now. It was a wonderfully narrow escape for both of them. Do all you can for Captain DuChassis. I'm sorry you won't let me take him home with me to-night.
About ten o'clock two boys strolled into the office and passed the nurses' sitting-room. The dimply nurse seized on one of them. "I am so glad you have come!" she said. "Captain DuChassis wants to see you. I told him how you came in and asked for him yesterday." She went on. "I can't go up for another hour; so you can both go up and amuse him.
I wish I knew where that paper is, I'd like to be the one to get it." "Would you, Miss Carol?" asked Captain DuChassis. He smiled and tapped his swagger stick lightly on his boot top. "Perhaps you are near it now. "No such luck! she sighed. "There will be luck for some one in it perhaps," said the Colonel. "Mr. Leffingwell has just offered a splendid prize to any Boy Scout who finds the formula.
Get it off your chest!" he demanded. "Want to know what they call the guy that's riding with Miss Bright?" "DuChassis Captain," said Beany. "He's called the 'Wolf," said Porky. Even alone as they were, he lowered his tone. Beany sat suddenly erect. "What?" he said. "You heard me," said his brother. He rapidly repeated the conversation he had overheard. "Where is the flower-house?" asked Beany.
The boys were silent; and while the officer continued his puzzled study of the two faces, the long racer swept again to the steps, and Captain DuChassis stepped out and handed down a lovely girl. She was in a riding habit, and she ran lightly up to the Colonel and kissed his tanned cheek. "Well, daddy," she cried, "we are going to take a ride together, Captain and I!"
"Didn't catch it," said he, obeying the warning for silence. Over in the Hospital, the dimply nurse laid compresses on the swollen ankle of Captain DuChassis. She found her patient wakeful, and worn with pain. The leg was badly wrenched, it seemed. The dimply nurse talked pleasantly with her distinguished guest, and to amuse him told him a small joke. It was an amusing little joke to her.
They talked occasionally but not of the yellow-eyed man who was even then laughing and talking to the Colonel. They came out a few minutes later, and "Captain DuChassis," as the Colonel called him, ran lightly down and drove off toward the clubhouse. The Colonel stood looking after him, and the two boys stood at attention beside him. He looked down and saw them presently.
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