“I’ll bet he was in the robbery himself,” muttered Merritt.
“Anyhow, we can make it look so,” snarled the other with an evil look.
CHAPTER XI
A BIT OF SIGNAL WORK
Jack Sheldon said nothing to Dick Percival or any of his friends in the Academy of the singular interview he had had in the woods with the strange man, having kept his own counsel thus far and resolving to keep it still unless forced to take some one else into his confidence.
No one would have guessed, seeing him among the boys, light-hearted and gay, apparently, that he had anything on his mind and he took good care that no one should guess it.
There was a time during the evening that one might absent himself from the general assembly if he chose although none of the boys was supposed to leave the grounds.
There was a direct rule against this except in a case of necessity, but Jack considered that it was necessary for him to leave the place at that time and he accordingly made his way rapidly down the hill, taking care that no one should see him leave.
“I cannot explain,” he muttered to himself as he hurried on in the darkness, “and yet I must see if those scoundrels are at work.”