I wish I had caught that man. I believe he holds the secret I wish to
solve. Where did you meet him?"
Bart told the circumstances connected with taking Mr. Hardman to the
woods, and of his curious questions.
"Tell me over again that one he asked about sick persons finding their
way through the woods," Frank asked, and Bart repeated it. Frank seemed
to ponder over it.
"I think I'll try to see him at the hotel," Frank remarked a little
later. "He may come back tonight. If he does, and I can get any clues to
what I want, I may have something to tell you."
"I think we can give you a piece of news now," Ned put in. "We have been
keeping it a secret, thinking the time would come when you could make use
of it. Well that time seems to have come now."
Then he related what had taken place the night he was kidnapped by the
Upside Down Club, and detailed the conversation of the two men in the
vacant house.
"Are you sure about this?" asked Frank. "Are you sure they spoke about my
uncle, and property and a sanitarium?"
"Positive," replied Ned. "Why?"
"It all fits in!" exclaimed Frank.
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