ust be

oke, addressing S

e sign of the missing one, and the only thing that had been f

ce was white and he was ready to c

him up," suggested Pop. He wan

Tom. "I suppose the best thing we c

"If he was floating around here we would surel

sight of Cleveland, and learned where they could tie up,

gshoreman they quickly learned that two persons had been

be Dick!"

ke the young fello

the steamer and took charge of

know where

. The young fellow was in pretty

man who was s

d here looking for you folks-so h

who had just appeared at the upper end of

. Yes, your brother is all right, although mighty tucked out by the exposure. He fell i

he agreed to accompany Sam and Tom to the hotel, and

r, Dick Rover," said Tom

s the reply, after the clerk

auled out of the lake and was b

his head. "No su

stonishment, and then t

to bring him here," said Luke Peterson. "And I pro

then turned swiftly to Sam. "Can th

, how did the man who wa

ke Peterson described

gave a lo

s fallen into the hands

questioned t

ion, concluding by saying they had discovered Arnold Baxter

other git into the wro

is, where did

s so,

ey didn't com

nd that coach driver, I

t us find him

and Tom returned to the Swallow, and Luke Peterson accompanied them. Peterson was also downheart

lso sent a telegram to his father, telling of what had happened. Th

town," said Tom, and proceeded to do so

n they found the coach driver w

rcial Hotel," said the coach driver. "So he had me

e is

about a mile and

take us t

got a job in qu

put in Sam. "Get somebody e

e the arrangement took time, and it was six o'clock

ing dark, with the shutters on the ground floor tight

smoothly. "But I could not accommoda

re?" ech

tly,

they got off here. He was

physician changed color for an inst

o rest. When I said I couldn't accommodate them the older man

wh

h I recommended the gen

to any of the c

s they went

red at every h

bony shoulders. "I am sorry, but I

ck young man wh

ck. Had he been bad I would hav

the least idea wh

ave

m's blunt comment. "Do you kn

dea. I never ask questions

ellows who had him in charge ar

levated his shaggy eyebrow

if you know anything more you had

home, and the old doctor

r-suspect me of-ahem-of any

uth. Which way did they

tly fo

hen wa

an hour after

y give a

essary, since I cou

sn't seem to be

ysician glared

he cried. "I am not accustomed to being addressed in

and now the doctor opened the door t

o the bottom of this affair, don't you forget that." And the

o say. "But, all the same, I was driving around these streets for a good hour a

k the doctor is humbug

hing is to

tch the place for a while,

ctor-what sort of a reputation h

was the answer. "He has been in court

helping Arnold Baxter-if he

h and drove off arou

lked away, intending to come up

ven by a man who, in the gloom, appeared s

" cried Sam. "H

bridle. Tom followed, and the man, who was just returni