below.

"Do you see anything?" asked Harry again.

"No, I can't say I do," Ned answered. "The place seems to
be deserted."

"Well, there was something there," insisted Harry. "Maybe
you aren't lookin' at the right place."

"Have a look yourself, then," suggested Ned, as he got
down, a task no more to his liking than the climb upward had
been.

Harry made easier work of it, being smaller and more used
to climbing trees, a luxury Ned had, perforce, denied
himself since going to work in the bank.

Harry peered about, and then, with a sigh that had in it
somewhat of disappointment, said:

"No; there's nothing there now. But I did see something."

"Are you sure?" asked Ned.

"Positive!" asserted the other.

"Well, whatever it was--some bit of machinery he was
moving, I fancy--Tom has taken it in now," remarked Ned.
"Better not say anything about this, Harry. Tom mightn't