"There's Owen now; he wasn't at practice this afternoon, I wonder
why?" exclaimed Thad, as they sighted another boy coming toward them.
"He looks as if he might be bursting with some sort of news, Hugh.
Now I wonder what he's run up against."
Owen quickly arrived. His face did have an eager look, and his eyes were fairly dancing with some sort of emotion.
"Hugh, I've got something to tell you!" he burst out with, at which Thad shot a knowing glance toward his chum, which said as plain as could be: "There, what did I say to you?"
"All right, Owen, relieve yourself of the load right away, before you burst," Hugh went on to advise, in his pleasant fashion.
"It's about a certain chap who's under suspicion right now of having been implicated in that breaking into the Kramer store and robbing it."
"Tip Slavin, you mean, Owen?" asked Hugh, looking interested at once.
"Yes, no other, Hugh. Well, I've discovered beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is the guilty partner of Leon Disney, just as everybody suspected!"
CHAPTER IX
AN ADVENTURE ON THE ROAD
Thad gave utterance to an ejaculation, and then followed it up by saying: