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"I did not, I say. Come on." "How are you going to get in? You said you knew of a way. I am certain the doors and windows are all tight." "Just you follow me and I'll show you a nice little trick." "But where do you want me to follow you to?" insisted Carl Dudder. "Under the boathouse." "Under it?" "Yes. Here is a place where we can crawl under very easily."
"Ham an' Carl Dudder said the ghost came after 'em something terribul. Wall, I believe it -after what I see myself," and jed shook his head slowly. "You ain't had no trouble?" "We've heard strange voices, that's all," answered Whopper. "We haven't seen the ghost." The old hunter soon told his story in detail.
Then it was suggested again to the tramp that he go back to the vicinity of the camp on Firefly Lake and make matters uncomfortable for the campers. "I'll do it, if you'll pay me what it is worth," said Kiddy Leech. "But I can't go back to-day. It's too cold and I ain't dressed warm enough. And I'll want some provisions." "I can get you some better clothing," said Carl Dudder.
We just got back -to find our boat gone." "Well, I'll be blessed!" gasped Carl Dudder, and then he gave his companion a peculiar look. "Do you know anything about our boat, Bush?" demanded Snap, sharply. "Why -I -er -that is " "Don't say anything!" whispered his companion, quickly. "What's that?" asked Shep. "So you do know, eh? What have you done with the boat?" "I -er -I didn't say I knew."
Here his feet were close to the water, but he supported himself on a cross rail nailed from one section of the spiling to another. Carl Dudder followed him, and both moved cautiously forward to the front end of the building. Once Ham slipped and a slight splash followed. "What's that?" cried Carl, in alarm, for he was decidedly nervous. "My foot slipped, that's all," was the answer.
"Humph! perhaps I'd do a little eating myself," came from the doctor's son. It was an ideal day in midsummer, and all of the lads were in the best of spirits. As they rowed along they discussed the encounter with the Spink faction. "I wish they'd leave us alone," was Shep's comment. "I am getting so I fairly hate the sight of Ham and Carl Dudder." "So do I," added Whopper.
With caution the four boys walked down a side street, which connected, by an alleyway, with the Dudder barn. Nobody was in sight, and they slipped into the barn with ease. In a corner, on the floor, they saw a long, flat box, marked "Fireworks! With care!" "We mustn't take them all!" said Shep. "We must leave a top row -just to fool 'em." The others understood and went to work with care.
"She must take it easy for a week or so." Then a neighbor, who had dropped in, said she would look after the patient during that time. "Carl Dudder ought to be made to pay for this," said Doctor Reed. "The Dudders won't pay anything Mr. Dudder is as miserly as they make him, even if he is well off," said Whopper. "Perhaps he can be forced to pay," replied Snap.
"We haven't seen the ghost, but we have heard those ghostlike voices and we want to find out what it means." "Oh, there's a real ghost -I heard about it before I left home," said Carl Dudder. "But I didn't think it would visit us." "I'd stay, only the rest won't," said Ham Spink, thinking he must put on a bold front before Snap and his chums.
Then, as several guns were raised, he leaped out of sight behind some bushes and went off, chattering wildly as he disappeared. "I'll kill that monkey!" roared Ham as he ran into the camp and picked up his ruined clothing. "Look at this!" "And this!" added Carl Dudder, snatching up the remains of his sleeping blanket. "It was the chimpanzee, sure enough," said Dick Bush.
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