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"I was watching him closely while Frank was talking to him, and I could see that he was really surprised as well as pleased to learn that Tom was gone." "But even if he didn't see him, that doesn't prove that Tom isn't there," suggested Bart. "He may have been captured by some other division. Besides, to tell the truth, I don't believe that Rabig was in a prison camp at all.
"Stop your kidding and tell us about it," commanded Bart. Frank told them the main features of his encounter of the night before, but it was only after mess when he had them by themselves that he voiced his suspicions of Rabig. Tom gave a long whistle. "That fellow will queer this whole outfit yet," he blurted out. "He's a sneak and a traitor.
A pleasant feature was the coming of Tom, who although rejected when he tried to enlist had been accepted in the draft. Not so pleasant, though somewhat amusing, was the fact that Nick Rabig also had been drafted and had to go to Camp Boone, though most unwillingly.
In a sense they had got in touch with their missing comrade, had seemed near to him, and their hopes were high that before long they would have him with them again. "It's disposed of one thing that was worrying me anyway," remarked Frank. "We know that Rabig had nothing to do with making away with Tom." "Yes," said Bart, "that's one thing the fellow can't be charged with.
But I'm still mighty curious to know what he was hanging around that farmhouse for." "It sure was a mighty strange coincidence that he should be there at the time the Germans were," declared Billy. "But Rabig is the only one who knows why and you can bet that he won't tell."
"The answer might be several things," replied Frank, who hated to believe evil of even his worst enemy. "A lot of things are due to coincidence. It may be perfectly true that Rabig was in sympathy with the German, but that doesn't say that he'd go so far as to let him actually escape. He was taking big chances with his own skin in doing it."
But when they were alone together they had no hesitation about speaking their minds. "Some fellows could commit murder and get away with it," grumbled Tom. "Cheer up, you old grouch," chaffed Billy. "At any rate the prisoner didn't escape, and so there's no harm done." "And if Rabig is guilty he's got nothing from it but a sore head," put in Bart.
He hated Frank, especially after the flag incident, and only the thought of his mother had prevented Frank more than once from giving Rabig the thrashing he deserved.
Evidently Pet Peters had just started in to follow up the line of traps, as described to him by Bud Rabig the rival of old Jesse, for they saw no more evidences of a visit. When an hour had passed they were carrying five victims of the steel traps. Jerry did not much fancy the business.
"You're interfering with discipline by talking to a sentry on guard." Rabig's newborn reverence for discipline amused the boys so that they had hard work to repress a laugh. "You're right," responded Frank. "We'll mosey along." "Ta-ta, Rabig," said Bart. "Keep your eye peeled for any Hun trick. That fellow nearly got me yesterday with his knife, and he might try to play the same game on you."
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