"Where in the world have you been? What has happened to you?" cried Bart.
"I got in the swamp trying to take a short cut," Frank explained. "I'm
clean beat out. Have you got any coffee?"
"Make you some in a jiffy," said Fenn, throwing some light wood on the
smouldering fire.
"I suppose you're surprised to see me?" asked Frank to his companions.
"There's no use saying we aren't," spoke Ned.
"And I guess you were surprised to find me gone?"
"Right again. But we guessed where you were."
"How?"
Ned showed the paper with the advertisement in it.
"I wondered where I had lost that," Frank said. "Well, boys, I'm going to
tell you my secret."
"Have some coffee before you begin," suggested Fenn, as he handed Frank a
steaming cupful. "It's only warmed up, but it's good."
The exhausted boy drank it, and ate some bread. Then having changed some
of his muddy clothes for garments loaned him by his chums, Frank began:
"You guessed rightly, I did go to the sanitarium, and I got the position.
But I don't believe any of you can guess why."
"Was it to get experience about crazy persons?" asked Ned.
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