“Girls are peculiar,” muttered Hodge. “I thought that girl did not care at all for Mart Woodock, but now I know she really thinks a good deal of him. She would not have taken all this trouble otherwise. She is a natural flirt, and she has tormented him till he was jealous. When he saw Merriwell and I with Hattie and Mabel at Northport, he attacked us with the others.”
But Diamond seemed so excited that he did not hear Bart’s words.
“I knew it! I knew it!” he repeated.
“Hey?” said Bart. “Knew what? What are you driving at?”
“Didn’t I tell you Parker Flynn was not dead?”
“Yes.”
“Well, you heard what Woodock told Merriwell. The fellow is alive! That is certain now.”
“How is it certain? Woodock simply said he had reasons to believe Flynn alive.”
“That’s enough. I am sure he did not tell all he knew. He didn’t dare. He wanted to warn Frank, and so he told that. Had he told the whole truth, he would have said that he knew Flynn was alive. I feel sure of it.”
“If he knows it, Flynn must be in Belfast.”