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"Perhaps something will turn up during the encampment." "Yes, I was thinking of that. A fellow has more of a chance in camp than he does in school." "It would be a fine thing to get Dick Rover into trouble and make him lose his position as captain," went on Gus Pender. "Yes, and make Tom Rover lose his position as lieutenant, too," added Flapp.
"I believe you," answered Dan Baxter. "It is certainly a dandy hiding place." "Those girls can't very well get ashore neither," said Hamp Gouch. "If they tried it they would get into mud up to their waists." "Is this Shaggam Creek the place you spoke about?" asked Lew Flapp. "Yes." "You said there was an old man around here named Jake Shaggam."
Sitting down, Dan Baxter told as much of himself and Lew Flapp as he deemed necessary, and told about the trip on the houseboat which the Rovers, Stanhopes, and the Lanings had been taking. Then he told how Dora and Nellie had been abducted and how the voyage down the Ohio had been started in the mist and the darkness. "You're a putty bold pair for your years," said Pick Loring.
And he started for the street, as swiftly as his feet could carry him. He was well in advance of Sam and Tom when Dan Baxter, looking back, espied him. "Hi, Flapp, we must leg it!" cried Baxter, in quick alarm. "Eh?" queried Lew Flapp. "What's wrong now?" "They are after us!" "Who?" "The three Rover Boys. Come on!" "Where shall we go to?" he asked in sudden fright. "Follow me!"
Dick had emerged from a grove of trees and now saw a light streaming from the window of a cottage but a short distance away. The sight of this caused him to breathe a sigh of relief. "Some farmer's place, I suppose," he murmured. "Well, anything will do. I can get a place to sleep, and the farmer can testify to it that I haven't been drinking, as Lew Flapp and his cronies will want to prove."
"Now, Lew Flapp, I guess I've got you!" he called out, after he was certain the door was secure. To this the bully made no answer, but it is more than likely his heart sank within him. "Do you hear me, Flapp? You needn't pretend you are not in there, for I saw you go in." Still Lew Flapp made no answer. "Do you want me to go away and leave you locked in the vault?" continued Sam.
"Then the houseboat is gone!" "That's the size of it." "And the girls are gone too," went on Tom. "Yes, but the two happenings may have no connection, Tom." "Don't be so sure of that!" "What do you mean?" "I'm thinking about Dan Baxter and Lew Flapp. They wouldn't be above stealing the houseboat." "I believe you there." "And if those girls happened to go on board Look there!"
"I shan't say a word if you don't," answered Lew Flapp. "By the way," he went on, with assumed indifference, "they tell me the Rover boys have cleared out and gone home." "No, they haven't," was Link Smith's prompt answer. They are right here." "Are you sure, Link?" "Of course I am.
"Where did you come from, Flapp?" "That's my business." "It was a fine trick you played on us while we were on the march back to Putnam Hall." "Trick? I haven't played any trick on you," answered Lew Flapp, loftily, as he began to regain his self-possession. "You know well enough that you robbed that jewelry shop and then tried to lay the blame on me and my brothers."
"Did they really cheat him?" questioned Lew Flapp, with interest. "They certainly did." "Then why didn't you go to law about it with them?" "They stole all the evidence, so we couldn't do a thing in law. Do you wonder that I am down on them?" "No, I don't. If I were you, I'd try to get my rights back." "I'm going to get them back some day," answered Dan Baxter.
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