“We can show you where he lives,” replied Jerry, “but he isn’t home.”
“Where has he gone?” and the man looked surprised at the news.
“He told me he was going to Florida, to look at a cocoanut grove he had purchased,” interposed Ned.
“What part, if I may ask?”
“Near Lake Okeechobee.”
“That’s where we’re going,” put in Bob, who was rather impetuous.
“Indeed! Are you friends of his?”
“Not exactly,” replied Ned, stiffly.
“Then you’re not going together?”
“No, he has already started. We’re going from St. Augustine in our motor boat,” came from Bob.