“Why——”
“You don’t——”
“I can’t see——”
“You mean——”
“It seems likely that somebody, or something, has been prowling round this building,” said Dick, cutting them all short. “There goes the breakfast-bell.”
There was a general movement to form into ranks to march to the dining-hall by classes, as was the custom, and the subject was dropped for the time being.
CHAPTER XXVII—DICK MAKES A DISCOVERY
The mystery of the “spook” that had so suddenly appeared at the academy grew with every night. Strange sounds were heard in the corridors, sentinels were frightened, and little articles and things of value continued to disappear from the rooms of the cadets.
“I wonder if this yere spook has visited us, pard?” said Brad Buckhart, one morning.
“Why?” asked Dick.