“Where is the game?”
“What has become of the skates?”
“Where is that overcoat I left on the tree?”
These and several other questions were asked in rapid succession. Then the Oak Hall students looked at each other in blank dismay.
And not without good reason. For everything left at the camping spot when they had continued the hunt—game, hamper, skates, an overcoat, a sweater, and some other things of lesser importance—all had disappeared!
CHAPTER V—A TRAMP THROUGH THE SNOW
“What do you make of this, Dave?”
“I don’t know what to make of it, Roger—excepting that somebody has taken our things.”
“Do you think it’s a joke, or just plain stealing?” demanded Ben.
“That remains to be found out,” replied Ben. “One thing is certain, the things didn’t walk off by themselves.”