“Ah, you can’t scare me,” returned Mumps.
“I’m not trying to scare you. I thought you told the story yourself,” was the answer, and then Andy and Pepper strolled on.
“He’ll remember that, I’ll wager,” whispered Pepper.
“We’ll know better when he goes on guard,” answered Andy, and then they waited impatiently for the time to come when they could work off their little joke on the sneak.
CHAPTER XVII
MUMPS SEES A GHOST
As luck would have it, Pepper and Andy went on guard from ten o’clock to midnight, while Mumps had his time set from midnight to two in the morning.
As soon as they came in from guard duty, Pepper and Andy told a few of their chums of what was in the air, and they all stole from their tents to a spot overlooking the ground that Mumps would have to cover during the next two hours.
The sneak was already on duty, pacing up and down slowly, with his gun on his shoulder. He had to march from one tree in the grove to another, a distance of two hundred feet.
As the sneak passed the tree where the white figure was concealed, Pepper, who was close at hand, uttered a low and unearthly groan.
At once Mumps came to a halt.