eleven. I listened, Dave, because I wanted to know what the trouble
was, and just who was making it. Now, I guess I know how to deal
with the 'sore-heads.' I'll make them ashamed of themselves."

"How?"

"One thing at a time, Dave. In our excitement we've almost forgotten
that we started out to find Theodore Dodge and clear up the mystery
of his disappearance."




CHAPTER V

AT THE END OF THE TRAIL


"The further we go the more mysterious this becomes," mused Dick,
as he and Darrin stood together over a clump of faintly-marked
footprints, a quarter of an hour later.

"How does the mystery increase?" Darrin inquired.

"For one thing, we don't always find the bootmarks of the men
who were with Mr. Dodge. Yet once in a while we do. There are
the prints of all three. When Theodore Dodge passed by this way
the other two men were with him, or had him in sight. And our
course shows that the three were plunging deeper and deeper into
the woods. But come along. There must be an end to this, somewhere."