Frank ducked, thus avoiding the blow. A second later, he caught hold of the fellow’s whiskers, gave a yank, and off they came in his hand.
They were false!
The man’s face was revealed.
“Lester Vance!” cried Frank, triumphantly.
It was a complete unmasking. The face of the rascally actor who had been “released,” on account of his crooked work in Atchison, was exposed by the sudden tearing away of the false beard.
“Great gosh!” gurgled Ephraim.
Hodge said nothing, but he glared at Vance with a look of deepest hatred.
Vance himself seemed stricken dumb.
The woman dropped down on a chair, and her “husband” stood and uttered some words which would not look well in print.
Frank Merriwell laughed chillingly.