“Then it is a mystery?”
“Yes.”
“About the old mill?”
“Yes, and about Jabez Trask.”
“I thought so,” said Pepper, with a little smile.
“It’s a long story and maybe you won’t want to listen to it now—with your clothing all wet. You may take cold.”
“Well, that’s true,” answered Pepper. “Can you meet us to-morrow evening near our encampment up the lake shore?”
“I will if you say so. I was going to use this rope to-day—but I can postpone that.”
“And we’ll postpone our story,” said Andy.
Bert Field showed them the way back to the trail through the woods and then separated from them. Andy and Pepper saw the odd youth slouch off with the coil of rope hung over his shoulder.