And the others instantly agreed to help him.
CHAPTER V
THE DOCTORED CAKE
Two days later Pepper and Andy were out on the lake skating, when Andy broke his skate and pitched flat on the ice.
“Hullo, what are you doing?” cried Pepper.
“Looking to see how thick the ice is,” was the merry retort.
“I thought you were looking for stars,” went on the Imp.
“No, thanks, I didn’t go down on the back of my head. Just the same, my left skate is broken.”
“That’s too bad.”
Both of the boys looked the broken skate over, and then retired to the old boathouse to see if they could not fix it. By chance they entered the place which Dan Baxter’s crowd had been using from time to time as a rendezvous.
“Hullo, look here!” cried Pepper, gazing around. “I didn’t know that anybody came here.”