Now Cora saw that this was the man who had come down the lake with
the canoe trailing behind his rowboat. He stepped into the
lantern's light, and both Bess and Belle must also have recognized
him, for they shot a meaning glance at Cora.

"What fellows?" drawled the man in answer to Ben's question.

"The ones I asked you about. You said they went to the
merry-go-'round. Did they?"

"Yep," replied the man sententiously.

"Where is that?" asked Cora, unable to restrain herself longer.

"At the Peak," he said vaguely. Then he stepped into his rowboat
and before anyone could question him further he was pulling up the
lake.

"Well, I'll be hung! Excuse me ladies, but I am that surprised,"
said Ben apologetically. "Say, that fellow knows about the kids,
and we've got to follow him. But how?"

"In my motor boat," proposed Cora quickly. "We could overtake him
in that before he had any idea we were following him!"

"Have you a motor boat? Good! Where is it? Here, I'll call Dan.
He kin run faster than a deer. Dan! Dan! Dan!" shouted the old
man, and from a nearby rowboat, where, evidently, some boys were
having some sort of a harmless game, Dan appeared. He was a tall
youth, the sort that seems to grow near the water. "Hey Dan, I want