man. "But I am sure of one thing, and that is that we were never so glad
to see any one in all our lives as we are to see you."




Chapter X

Hurrah for Allen



The young man stared for a moment longer. Then the humor of the situation
seemed to strike him too, and he smiled pleasantly.

"It surely is a pleasure to be as welcome as all that," he said
pleasantly, and the girls noticed that he was a well set up young fellow
and that he wore his uniform easily, as if he had been used to wearing it
for a long, long time. "I am Wesley Travers," he went on. "I live in a
cottage down the road and I came over this way to see if the old professor
had come back yet. I saw the door open--came in--and found you."

He smiled again pleasantly and looked as though he considered that he had
fallen into rather good luck. But at his mention of the professor Betty
had sobered instantly.

"Oh, then you know something about Professor Dempsey?" she questioned
eagerly.

"Please tell us what happened to him," added Amy breathlessly.