"Oh. I'm Dan Baxter right enough," answered the former bully of Putnam
Hall.
"But—but I thought you were still on that island in the Pacific."
"You wanted to see me end my days there, didn't you?" sneered Dan
Baxter.
Dick did not reply, for he was gazing at the other occupant of the room, a man with a short crop of hair and a short beard.
"And your father, too!" he murmured.
"Come in here," cried Arnold Baxter savagely and caught him by the arm.
"Are you alone?"
"Yes," answered Dick, before he had stopped to think twice.
"Good enough. Come in," and Arnold Baxter continued to hold him.
"He may be fooling us, dad," put in Dan Baxter. "The officers of the law may be with him."
"Take a look around and see, Dan. I'll keep him here."