“Not yet,” answered Merriwell; “but we’ll know all about it in a minute.”
“How—how will you learn the truth?”
“From Aaron,” was the quiet answer that made the little man gasp.
“Aaron? He——”
“He knows much more than he has seen fit to tell.”
“Guidness kens I ha’ told ye everything!” protested the alarmed man.
Dick’s dark eyes were fastened on Aaron, and to the latter they seemed to bore into his very soul.
“Sit there,” commanded the boy, pointing toward a chair.
Aaron felt that he was compelled to do so.
Dick drew another chair before the man, sitting where he could look him straight in the eyes.