“Are we going back to the Hall?”
These and a number of other cries rang out, and nearly all the runaways surrounded The Imp. For answer Pepper pointed to where the horse and wagon had been.
“Gone!”
“Who took them?”
“Don’t ask me,” was the answer. “I missed them a minute ago and tried to find out what had become of them. But they are teetotally gone, and that is all there is to it.”
“Where are the guards?” demanded Jack. “Brightwood, did you see anything of the horse and wagon?”
“I did not,” answered one of the cadets who had been on guard duty. Then some of the others were questioned, but all shook their heads.
“Fred Century was on guard near the wagon,” said Andy, suddenly. “Where is he?”
All looked around, but in vain.
“Maybe he drove off with the horse and wagon,” suggested Hogan. “But I don’t know where he’d go, so I don’t.”