When he got a chance he slipped around to
where his chum was sitting and asked:
"Anything the matter, Frank?"
"No. What makes you ask me that?"
"Why I thought you looked worried over something."
"No, I'm all right," replied Frank, with forced heartiness. After that he
tried to join in the talk and fun, but it was too obviously an effort to
deceive Ned.
"Something's wrong with Frank," Ned decided in his own mind. "We've got
to find out what it is in spite of him, and help him. I must speak to
Bart and Fenn as soon as I have the chance."
It was not until all the other boys, including Frank, had left the barn
and gone home, late that night, that Ned found the opportunity he wanted.
Then he told his two chums of what he had heard at the new house.
"What do you make of it?" asked Bart.
"I'll admit I'm suspicious," said Ned. "It looks as though Frank was
mixed up in something."
"Do you mean something bad?" asked Bart.
"No, I don't know's I'd call it that. But something suspicious, anyhow.
You remember that letter from Wright & Johnson?"
"The one of which we found the envelope?" Bart inquired.
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