"Higgins always struck me as being a bit too zealous," said the lady. "I do not wonder that the doctor refused to deliver it after the man's poor account of you. You seem to be a great favorite both with the doctor and with the Hilltop boys."
"And deservedly so," echoed Percival. "We won't hear a word against
Jack, and it has not spoiled him either."
"And you know about the watch, too?"
"Yes, being in the tent when it dropped out of Jack's pocket. I hoped he might keep it, but now——-"
"But now you think that I have a right to it?"
"To be sure, and I only meant that Jack should keep it in case he could find no owner for it:"
It was now time for the boys to return to the camp, and they took their leave, Jack promising to examine the watch when he got back, and to report if it was as the lady had said.
After supper Jack and Percival went to the doctor's, and Jack told what the lady had said, and asked to see the watch.
The top of the upper part of the case could be removed, just as she had said, and Jack found the photograph and the little coin under it.
"Well, that is all right," he said to Dick. "I am satisfied that the owner has now been found, for that thing has bothered me a good deal. I wonder what Higgins has been doing all this time, however, not to report his failure to get the watch?"