"If Frank has been foully dealt with, the villains have not been given time to make another grave. His body is hidden somewhere. But I will not believe anything of the kind has happened. We shall find him somewhere—alive and well."
"We must!"
Bruce remembered the strange whispering they had
heard there when he and Frank visited the place, and now he listened, half expecting to hear it again.
The silence was unbroken save by the mournful sound of the wind in the trees.
Bruce went forward quickly and stood by the grave. Bart came up, and together they looked down at the gray headstone.
"What is that?" asked Hodge, pointing. "Somebody has been doing something to the stone since it was placed here."
They bent down and looked at the stone.
"Why," cried Bruce, "the first name has been chiseled off! Another name has been put on! That name is——"
"Frank Merriwell!"