He could hardly see the wire
now, and he was a bit worried. If he did not come to the end of it soon
it meant he would have to stay in the forest all night, as he could not
possibly find his way back after dark, for the wire would be invisible.
It was, therefore, with a somewhat anxious heart that Frank watched the
shadows lengthening and saw the wire becoming more and more faint to his
view. Then, when he was about to give up, and look for a place where he
might spend the night, though he doubted if there was one in the woods,
he saw, through the trees, a large building. His heart gave a great
thump, for, as he went on a little further he saw that the telephone wire
ran to this building almost obscured from view.
"I have found it!" Frank exclaimed, half aloud. "Now to see what it is!"
He came to the edge of a clearing in which the building stood. He was
about to press on, when he caught sight of a notice painted on a board
and set up just at the beginning of the grounds. It read:
_CLIFFSIDE SANITARIUM. PRIVATE GROUNDS_.
"Sanitarium!" exclaimed Frank, as the memory of the conversation of the
two men, of which Ned had told him, came to his mind.
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