"He is with the searchers."
Bruce lost no time in looking for Merriwell, soon coming face to face with him in the grove. Frank's face was pale and stern, and there was a dangerous, desperate gleam in his eyes.
"You're wasting your time here, Merry," declared Bruce. "Hodge has just told me of the men who wore the wolf masks. There must have been three of them. While you were having that set-to with two of them the third carried Inza off."
"But where is she?" asked Frank hoarsely. "Where did he take her?"
"You won't find her on shore. Look on the lake."
"The lake?"
"Yes."
"Why——"
Immediately Browning told how he had seen one of the men wearing a wolf mask in the canoe which so nearly collided with the one he occupied.
"There was something in the bottom of that canoe. I fancied a struggle was taking place. I thought it mighty singular."