"That's so," added Sam. "By the way, I wonder what he meant by
saying we were dogging him?"

"I can't say," replied Dick. "But I've been thinking that he
can't be up to any good, or he wouldn't be so suspicious."

"Just exactly my idea!" burst out Tom. "Do you know what I half
imagine?"

"Well?"

"That Mumps is cruising around waiting for Dan Baxter to join
him."

"But Baxter went to Chicago."

"He won't stay there -- not as long as his father is in the East.
He will be back before long, if he isn't back already."

"But he took that money belonging to hi! father."

"What of that? His father can't do anything against him, for he
himself is worse than his son, as we all know. Besides, his
father is most likely still in the hospital."

"If you young gentlemen want to sail around until tomorrow noon,
I can take you out in one of my boats," remarked Martin Harris.
"I've got a first-class yacht, the Searchlight, that I can let
you have reasonably."