“There are some more tents back of Sandy’s,” said Stumpy. “And I can see a log hut, too. There’s something red over the door!”
CHAPTER XV
NED STOPS A PANIC
“Can you read it?” asked Ned.
“It begins with a ‘K.’ ‘King of Paprica,’ that’s what it is. I can see it plainly, now that the sun is out from behind the cloud.”
“This is where they moved the hut to,” Ned went on. “Well, this thing is getting more and more mysterious.”
Bart again ascended the tree and took a long observation. He reported that the men seemed to be measuring the land with long chains, while one was using an instrument such as surveyors carry.
“Maybe they’re planning to put a new trolley line through,” suggested Fenn.