ngster did not seem the worse for
wear.

"Did the man hurt you, Tommy?"

"Oh, no, Uncle Jack. He is a good man, nice man. He gimme candy,
he gimme pie." The voice went prattling on as Jack carried him
downstairs.

Harry Stoy with youthful enthusiasm and the morbidity often
observed in the young wanted to examine the thing that lay on the
ground. Jimmy, with full knowledge of police regulations and
requirements, objected. He went into the house and made a careful
search, taking such papers as he thought might be of use to
Professor Brierly, the scientist, and to Jimmy, the newspaper man.

When Jack came with the boy, Jimmy called the telephone operator
and after identifying himself he told her where he was and asked
that the nearest police authorities be notified. Then the group
started back for the lake.

Professor Brierly and Norah were pacing the lake front in an agony
of impatience, each for a different reason. Norah ran into the
shallow water several steps, the sooner to have the child in her
hungry arms. Professor Brierly's eyes were burning as he waved a
telegram.

As the happy group stepped ashore, Professor Brierly said:

"It was Amos Brown, of course. This wire tells me. I should have
known but perhaps this is best. Tell me, was there a boxwood
hedge, a collie, running water, a sorrel horse, a pear tree?"

Jimmy and Matthews looked at one another sheepishly. They had been
too much absorbed in their errand to see. They both wrinkled their
brows in an effort to visualize the farmyard where that thing lay,
when Professor Brierly exploded into wrath.

"Oh, you futile, inane, incompetent creatures. You, John, with all
your scientific training. I cannot expect anything else from Hale.
A newspaper man lives on emotional sensations. They form his stock
in trade, but you--" Harry Stoy interrupted:

"Professor, if you're askin' about Mr. Brown's farm all them
things you mentioned are there and there's some leghorn chickens
and some--"

Professor Brierly's eyes glowed approvingly. "Good boy, Harry, you
not only have eyes, but you can see." He looked down and a smile
broke over his tired features. Tommy had been tugging his coat
demanding attention. Professor Brierly took the child in his arms
and hugged him tight.

After the excitement was over he bent eagerly over the papers that
Jimmy brought from Brown's farm. He was thus engaged and the
others were making a fuss over Tommy when the telephone bell ran