"All right, fire away," answered Frank, and walked away from the gate with the other boy.
"I want you to promise that you won't tell anybody first," went on Charlie. "The reason I ask is, because I don't want to get into trouble."
"I shan't get you into trouble if I can help it, Charlie."
"It's about those lost uniforms and other things that belong to your baseball club."
"What about them?" and now Frank was all curiosity.
"They are really gone, aren't they?"
"Yes."
"Well, I was down near Hatfield's lumber yard this morning, and I heard something that I didn't think much of just then, but I think more of it now."
"What did you hear?"
"Something that was said between Sidney Yates and Billy Fram." And then the cripple related the conversation recorded in the previous chapter.