FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111  
112   113   114   115   116   117   118   >>  
There isn't any real doubt as to his being your son. You had better wait for further proofs until after you have found the boy---who, according to all accounts, stands badly in need of a real father just now." "You are right---quite right," admitted Mr. Page. "Yes, we will find my son first. But tell me something more. Didn't the boy know that Bill Mosher wasn't his real father?" "No; it had never been hinted to him," Colquitt answered. "Bill kept the truth from the child, and, after Bill's wife died, they moved over into this part of the country, where no one knew their past history." "And has my son never been in school?" "Oh, yes; the compulsory education law came to the rescue, and the boy had a grammar school education before he took to the woods altogether." "I know something definite, at last," sighed the unhappy father. "I know that my boy is alive, and that he needs a father. Moreover, I feel certain that he is at this moment not far away from me. What shall we do next? Did you wire for more detectives from your agency?" "There was no need to do so," Colquitt replied. "There are several officers now looking for the lad, and they are certain to come upon him. Hibbert and I will aid in the search. The chauffeur will bring in four folding cots and some blankets. We shall have to impose upon these young men for shelter to-night, as this is the point from which we must take up the chase in the morning." At least one man in the tent lay with eyes wide open all night, and that was Mr. Page. By daylight the rain had stopped. The sun came up, drying the ground in the open spaces, raising a semi-fog under the big trees as the moisture steamed up. It was a close, humid morning, yet all rose so early that breakfast had been eaten before six o'clock. Then Mr. Page's party went away in the automobile, on some errand of their own. "I wonder how the girls got through the rain last night?" mused Dave Darrin. "They must have gotten along all right," Dick replied. "They had two dry houses in, which to sleep." "I've a good mind to go over now, and make some inquiries," Dave pursued. "Will you come with me?" "No, and I'd advise you not to go, either. Six in the morning is too early to call on young women." "That's so," Dave assented. "What time should we go over?" "As this is camp life, I should say it might be all right for us to drop over there soon after nine o'clock," Dick s
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111  
112   113   114   115   116   117   118   >>  



Top keywords:

father

 

morning

 

school

 

education

 
replied
 

Colquitt

 

breakfast

 

errand

 

automobile

 

steamed


stopped
 

daylight

 
proofs
 
drying
 

ground

 

moisture

 
spaces
 

raising

 
advise
 
pursued

inquiries

 

assented

 

Darrin

 

houses

 
sighed
 
unhappy
 

Mosher

 

definite

 

altogether

 

hinted


moment

 
Moreover
 

grammar

 

rescue

 

country

 
compulsory
 

answered

 

history

 
shelter
 

stands


blankets

 

impose

 

accounts

 
folding
 

officers

 

detectives

 

agency

 

admitted

 

chauffeur

 

search