“Possibly. Now go to bed, all of you, and let me hear no more alarms.”
Once again the cadets retired. Pepper walked off with Jack and Andy.
“Jack, what do you make of this?” asked Pepper.
“Oh, it was some trick,” answered the young major.
“But did you hear what they said—that it happened near that old mill, the Robertson mill?”
“That’s so,” mused Jack. “The place that Bert Field was asking about, and the spot some claim is haunted.”
“I don’t think the Pornell fellows would play that trick,” said Andy. “They wouldn’t dare—so close on their other doings.”
“I’d like to investigate this on my own account,” continued Pepper. “I am very curious to visit that haunted mill, and I am curious to know why Bert Field is interested in it.”
“Well, you may get a chance some day,” answered Jack; and there the talk had to come to an end.
In the morning the majority of the cadets were sleepy and inclined to lay around after inspection and breakfast and take it easy. Paxton and Sabine were again questioned, and Captain Putnam departed on horseback, to investigate their story.