“At one o’clock,” repeated Doctor Dan, solemnly. “That is an engagement. I will keep it. Good day.”
“What about the monster?” asked Dick. “You saw it, I believe.”
“I did. It is there,” replied Doctor Dan.
“Can you describe it?”
Doctor Dan entered into a most accurate description of the Plesiosaurus. It seemed hard to imagine that he was lying and Dick’s hope was greatly aroused.
“It will be the making of us, Charley,” he remarked, as they went in to dinner a little later, after Doctor Dan had left the hotel.
“Gentlemen, did you register?” called the clerk from behind the desk.
“No,” replied Dick, turning back.
“Then please do. It’s the law and we have to trouble you.”
Dick took up the pen and was about to sign his name to the register when he suddenly gave a quick start.