For a moment there was silence, and then Jerry burst out with:
“Well, if that isn’t just like him—the dirty sneak!”
CHAPTER XIV
A DESPERATE CHANCE
Disappointment rendered the three chums incapable of action for the moment. They just stood and looked at the place where their little store of wood had been hidden. Now it was gone, and with it the hope of a hot supper from that particular source.
“What are we going to do?” asked Bob blankly.
“We ought to go down to the post where that sneak is and get the wood back,” declared Ned. “And tell his chums what sort of fellow they have bunking with ’em!”
“No, don’t do that,” advised Jerry, who had cooled down after his first passionate outburst. “That will make trouble. Noddy would only laugh at us, and some of the others might. It isn’t the first time wood has been taken.”