“What! back, safe and sound!” cried the teacher. “I am more than glad to hear it.”
“We are glad to be back,” answered Jack.
“But what made you run off?”
“We didn’t run off. We were carried off against our will.”
“Well! well! I suppose—— What is that thing?”
“This, Mr. Strong, is something we suspect belongs to you,” said Jack, proudly. “It is the missing pot of gold—only it isn’t full by any means.”
“The pot of gold? Surely I must be dreaming!” gasped the teacher. “Where did you get it?”
Their tale was speedily told in detail, and the gold was examined with much interest.
“It must be true,” said George Strong. “What an extraordinary ending to an extraordinary adventure!”
Just then the cannon on the campus boomed out—the signal that the boys had returned to Putnam Hall.