"
"Look here, fellows, here are some clothes," Will called out suddenly,
and the boys rushed over to where he stood, a tattered old hat and an
equally ragged coat in his hands. "Maybe there will be something in
the jacket to tell us where the poor fellow has been staying and what
he has been up to."
They searched through the coat and finally pulled out a wallet.
"Now if it only has some writing in it," said Mollie breathlessly.
There was a card, and the card bore the words which they expected, yet
dreaded, Arnold Dempsey, Ph. D. But there was nothing else, and
suddenly tears dimmed their eyes and they had to turn away.
"It will be mighty hard on Jimmy and Arnold," muttered Roy, gazing
somberly at the fast-flowing river. "To have their dad go that way!
They'll take it mighty hard-- those boys."
CHAPTER XXIII
A MOONLIGHT APPARITION
"Let's look around a little anyway," Betty suggested. "He may possibly
have been swept up on the shore farther down the river."
"If such a thing were possible he would probably be dead anyway,"
Frank protested, but the girls paid no attention to him.
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