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Updated: May 9, 2025
Perhaps this George Stormways may be in charge of the woodyard. Anyhow I reckon we're going to learn something about him here; and now you see that my idea of keeping right along drifting was the correct one after all." "I suppose so. I hope the steamer don't take a notion to move off while we're passing. I wouldn't like to take the responsibility of ramming and sinking her, you know, Maurice."
He's a great dog, all right, and Jack's fond of him." "I suppose money couldn't buy him, then?" suggested Mr. Pender. "It would be useless to try it, sir, I think. Will you stay long with Mr. Stormways?" "That I cannot say. My business may be completed in a day, and it may keep me in this vicinity for a week. That depends on circumstances.
"Yes, here you c'n see the markin' on the lid they threw away when they opened this one 'Professor Hackett, In care of John Stormways, Stanhope, all as plain as anything. And to think how after all my worryin' the old boxes have bobbed up here. Don't it beat the Dutch how things turn out?"
Carlo never comes up here without sniffing at that drawer, and looking at me knowingly. Go ahead, Paul, and I'll put out the lamp." So they went downstairs, and after a while sought the dining room, where Paul met both parents of his chum, as well as a gentleman who was visiting Mr. Stormways. "Mr.
"How did you like it up on the Radway?" continued the one who had made the first inquiry, Jack Stormways, whose father owned a lumber yard and planing mill just outside the limits of the town, which was really the goal of their present after-supper walk. "Great place, all right," replied Bobolink. "Paul kept calling my attention to all the things worth seeing.
So Jack used his key, and the four entered the office. It was quite a good-sized room. The windows were covered with heavy wire netting, and it seemed strong enough to resist any ordinary degree of force. After that attempt to rob his safe, Mr. Stormways had taken precautions against a similar raid. The watchman also carried a lantern, which he now lighted.
George worked foh me a long spell, till the shakes knocked him out," said the other, finally. Maurice had been studying the man. He believed he could see honesty in his thin sallow face, but hesitated to say anything about the real motive that influenced himself and chum to stop in order to hunt up George Stormways. Such a secret had better be confined to as few persons as possible.
It seemed that the professor chanced to remember that he had been told about the ability of Jack Stormways' chum; and when matters began to look desperate, since none of his assistants could seem to stop the flow of blood that followed his accident, as a last resort he had forced them to put him on a litter, and make for the spot where they knew the scouts had their camp, the man in the aeroplane having signaled the fact back to them, just as Paul suspected.
"I find just eight here, that's all!" came the answer that caused the wretched brother of young Karl Stormways to shiver and sigh dismally. "Just thirteen gone now," said Jack, as he bent over to look for himself. "Of course you know what they were, those that are missing?" suggested Paul. "I have a list of the bunch somewhere; made it out one day just for fun.
The meeting ended in Paul being placed in the honored position of scout leader, with the second position being thrust on Jack Stormways, though he declared that Wallace Carberry was far better qualified to fill it than he ever could be. But Paul was satisfied to have it so. Jack was his favorite chum; and he would be thrown much in his company.
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