around here," she said. "Was it a girl or a boy?"

"A boy," answered Mr. Bailey, "three years old; at the time of
his disappearance he wore a white sailor suit and hat."

"When did he disappear?" asked Nyoda.

"Last Thursday night."

"We were just coming home from a hiking trip then and had lost
one of our own girls and weren't paying much attention to
anything else," said Nyoda, "but I'll ask the girls who were in
camp while we were looking for Migwan." She blew the bugle and
called the girls together and when they had come she introduced
Mr. Bailey and asked if they had seen anything of the little boy.

At the mention of a boy in a white sailor suit Migwan pricked up
her ears. "Why, I saw him when I was lying in the woods waiting
for the girls to come for me. There were two men with him, one
carrying him. I spoke to them and asked them to send somebody
after me. They said they were hurrying to catch the boat."

"What boat?" asked the detective.

"It must have been the _Bluebird_,--the Loon Lake boat--for they
were going in the direction of Loon Lake."

"Can you describe the men?" asked Mr. Bailey. Migwan tilted back
her head and squinted her eyes in an effort to bring back the
picture. "One was tall and had a black mustache. He was the one