at Jack restrained him. Instead he got up, said good-night and
followed Jack upstairs. There he took his bath, except that he
substituted cold water for the hot, for he could guess what Jack
meant to do. They were going out again, that was certain. And,
while it is easy to take cold, especially when one is tired, after
a hot bath, there is no such danger if the water is cold.

"Do you know where the telephone wire runs?" he asked Jack.

"Yes, I do," said Jack. "I watched the men when they ran the wire
in. There are only three telephones in the village, except for
the one at Bray Park, and that's a special, private wire. We have
one here, Doctor Brunt has one, and there's another in the garage.
They're all on one party line, too. We won't have any trouble in
finding out if the wire was cut, I fancy."

Their chief difficulty lay in getting out of the house. True,
Jack had not been positively ordered not to go out again, but he
knew that if his father saw him, he would be ordered to stay in.
And he had not the slightest intention of missing any part of the
finest adventure he had ever had a chance to enjoy - not he! He
was a typical English boy, full of the love of adventure and
excitement for their own sake, even if he was the son of a
clergyman. And now he showed Dick what they would have to do.

"I used to slip out this way, sometimes," he said. "That was
before I was a scout. I - well, since I joined, I haven't done
it. It didn't seem right. But this is different. Don't you
think so, Dick?"