"What could one little mad old man do
to three big husky soldier boys?"
The words had hardly been spoken when the sound of voices could be
heard coming toward the house, and a moment later the boys themselves
stamped up on the porch.
"Not a sign of him," said Will in response to the girls' eager
questions. "I don't see how he could have disappeared so completely in
such a short time."
"We all took different directions, too," said Roy, taking a seat on
the couch again and staring fascinatedly at the window. "If all the
rest of you hadn't seen it too, I should certainly think I had been
mistaken."
"You weren't mistaken," Mollie assured him grimly. "I can vouch for
that."
"Didn't one of you girls call out something about Professor Dempsey?"
asked Frank, abruptly.
"Yes," said Betty, going over to him, and putting an excited hand on
his shoulder. "That's the thing that startled us so, Frank. We are
sure it was Professor Dempsey's face. But, still, it was so wild and
distorted that we really wouldn't feel like contradicting any one who
told us it wasn't he," she added slowly.
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