“All present,” Buck nodded.
“There must be somebody absent,” piped up a boy. “There goes a light up the side of the mountain!”
CHAPTER XI
THE LONE LIGHT
With one accord they turned and looked up the mountain. Just as the boy had announced, a single light was moving up, like some firefly on a wall.
For the moment it was in a cleared space and they could follow it. In another moment it had passed from sight and only a fleeting glimpse was to be seen as it flashed from between a tree screen.
Ted looked in perplexity around him, counting the boys. “Twenty, counting myself and Buck,” he murmured. “We are all here.”
“That must be our party, the gentleman who has been annoying us,” Buck said, as they stared up the slope.
“Perhaps it is. I wonder if he has any intentions tonight.”
“Hard to tell. Let’s follow him!”
“I don’t know as we ought to do that,” mused Ted. “Suppose it shouldn’t be the right person? If it isn’t the one we think it is, we’ll look silly chasing him.”