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Hal flashed his light, and by its gleam the Curlytops could see that the cave was large, larger even than it had seemed when they were in it with their grandfather. "Look on the floor for the rocks," suggested Hal. "That's where the tramp-man would put 'em if he brought 'em here." But they did not see the blue rocks, nor any others.
So to-morrow Grandpa Martin is going to bring him to Star Island." "Oh, goody!" cried Ted and Jan, jumping up and down and clapping their hands. Trouble did the same thing, though he did not know exactly what for. "We'll have fun with Hal!" cried Ted. "Maybe he'll help us find the tramp-man. Hal's smart he can make kites and lots of things."
"We'll have to dig for the gold ourselves! Come on, let's get some shovels and well start right away. It must be up near the cave. Come on! We'll dig for the gold ourselves!" Hal Chester was very much in earnest. His eyes shone and he could not keep still. He fairly danced around Janet and Ted. "Do you really think that tramp-man was looking for gold?" asked Ted. "'Deed I do," declared Hal.
"What's the matter?" she whispered, when they were safe by themselves. "Did you see the tramp-man?" "No, but I'm going to find him!" "You are?" cried Janet, and her eyes opened wide with wonder and surprise. "Don't tell anybody," went on Ted. "We don't want Trouble to follow us. Come on off this way," and he pointed to a path that led through the bushes back of the tent.
"Now we must look all around," declared Teddy. "What for?" his sister demanded again. "To tell which way the tramp-man went. Then we can find his cave." "Maybe he lives in a wagon or a tent." "Then we'll find them. Come on, help look!" "I don't know how," confessed Janet. "Well, look for a place where the bushes are broken down and where you see footprints in the dirt. That's the way Indians tell.
"What else was he after?" Neither Ted nor Janet could answer that. "But how will we know where it is?" asked Janet. "We don't know where there's any gold, and mother won't want us to go near that tramp-man." "And I don't want to, either," answered Hal. "But we can dig down till we find the gold, can't we?" "If we knowed I mean if we knew where to dig," agreed Ted, after thinking about it.
"Something you can't tell what it is. This mystery is a tramp." "A tramp?" "Yes. Jan saw him when she was picking flowers, and he pulled Trouble out of the spring afterward. And there's a cave here where maybe he sleeps, 'cause there's some bags for beds in it. He's looking for something on this island, that tramp-man is," declared Ted. "Looking for something?" repeated Hal, quite puzzled. "Yes.
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