“Say, what do you want here?” he demanded, but instead of replying the men hurried away, up the lake, and then in the direction of Cedarville.
“Well, of all the mysteries I ever struck,” exclaimed the young major. “Now, what can those chaps be up to? This is at least the third or fourth time they have come here, and nobody seems to know anything about them.”
When Jack returned to the Hall he lost no time in visiting Captain Putnam’s office.
“Perhaps you’ll laugh at me, sir,” he said. “But I want to report those two men again.”
“Again!” cried the master of Putnam Hall. “Where did you see them?”
“At the boathouse. I went down there for a skate strap. They were just coming out.”
“Did you speak to them?”
“Yes, I asked them what they wanted. They didn’t answer, and hurried away on the Cedarville road.”
“Did they take anything out of the boathouse?”
“I don’t know.”