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Updated: June 24, 2025
He had neatly lettered a sign: "Wild honey. Prepared by the Honey Bees for Chick-chick." This he stuck into the bottom of the hollow limb, only an end protruding. Then he put in a good chunk of honeycomb, begged from Bob. From a small jar he then released some half dozen bees which he had allowed himself to borrow from Mr. Ryder's hives.
Matt wouldn't have told them anything but when he found they were surveyin' Vinegar Creek and goin' on up to Buffalo next he could see right off that they had good chances of runnin' right into the cave, so he gets ahead of 'em by tellin' all about it and making 'em promise equal shares if they found anything." "Clever Matty!" exclaimed Chick-chick. "Yes, he's clever, Matty is.
Crouching in the bushes at the side of the road their pulses throbbed in great excitement as they observed that the peddler addressed some one inside the car. His tone was low so they did not catch the words, but they heard a mumble and saw his cruel laugh. "We'll teach him to laugh," whispered Chick-chick. "But supposing he shuts and locks that rear door before he goes up to the house."
When all was cleared away and the boys were ready to dismiss he made the announcement: "Burton will now tell us of his discovery; the site he selected, how he has worked and what he has found." "Rah for the Great and Only," yelled Chick-chick, and, the designated title being popularly known and approved, the "rah" was given before Matt began to speak.
Wish we could find Chick-chick. We could tell him right now." It was a hard thing to be discreetly silent until their opportunity for thorough search came, and fortunate that they had not long to wait. That very afternoon it rained and most of the boys stayed in camp. Chick-chick was still away on some mysterious errand. Glen and Apple appeared clad in bathing suits and tennis shoes.
"He surely don't disgrace himself by too much show of affection," agreed Chick-chick. "You musn't think it's because it's me, though. There's on'y one person Matty really loves. He's real smart, Matty is. You noticed he spoke so the men couldn't hear him." Black Bob had Mr. Spencer's eggs all ready. "These is for the ge'mman as told the stories last night," he announced.
"These robbers chose safe place for their plunder all right, all right," said Chick-chick to Apple, "but mighty inconvenient, it is." "I don't see why they did it," Apple replied. "They ought to have rented a safety deposit box in some bank." From the other bank their passage was watched not only by the excited group of younger scouts but by three new arrivals.
He started a familiar camp song, and from one song they went to another. When they were singing "Where He leads me I will follow" Chick-chick held up his hand. "Matt's asleep," he whispered. "I'll bet his head's made him 'bout half crazy. Hope he sleeps till morning." How many hours they slept they could not tell, for there were no timepieces.
They were all wide awake now, and all leaned over the ledge to form their own opinion. "The current seems to run differently," said Glen. "It acts as if the rock we threw in has stopped up the old outlet and it was running back of the heap we pulled down instead." "Yes, sir. Strikes me just that way," said Chick-chick. "I'm going to take the other lantern and explore a little," said Glen.
Newton had decided that the information Glen had gained from the robbers' chart was his exclusive property, since it had been obtained by him while in peril of life and limb. But Glen was not disposed to take advantage of this, and with the help of Apple and Chick-chick as chartographers was preparing a chart for the free use of the entire camp.
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