Then the humor of the
situation seemed to strike him too, and he smiled pleasantly.
"It surely is a pleasure to be as welcome as all that," he said
pleasantly, and the girls noticed that he was a well set up young
fellow and that he wore his uniform easily, as if he had been used to
wearing it for a long, long time. "I am Wesley Travers," he went on.
"I live in a cottage down the road and I came over this way to see if
the old professor had come back yet. I saw the door open-- came in--
and found you."
He smiled again pleasantly and looked as though he considered that he
had fallen into rather good luck. But at his mention of the professor
Betty had sobered instantly.
"Oh, then you know something about Professor Dempsey?" she questioned
eagerly.
"Please tell us what happened to him," added Amy breathlessly.
"Did he do this?" asked Mollie, with a comprehensive sweep of her hand
about the cluttered room.
"I'm afraid he did," answered the young fellow, sobering instantly.
"You see, I just returned from overseas about a week ago and a couple
of days later my dad read in the paper about the death of this queer
old man's two sons.
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