"Where did you hear from him, Thomas?"
"At the hotel where we stopped for supper yesterday. A boy who works around the stables told me Flapp had been there and was very angry because he had been sent away from the academy. The boy said Flapp vowed he was going to get square with the Rovers for what they had done."
"What boy was that?" asked Josiah Cotton, with interest.
The boy was described and, a little later, he was brought over from the hotel. He was very much frightened and insisted upon it that he had had nothing to do with the robbery.
"Tell what you can about Lew Flapp," said Dick, and the boy did so.
"That young fellow had been drinking, or else he wouldn't have talked so much," added the lad. "He certainly said he was going to get square with the Rover brothers."
"Have you seen him since?"
"Yes, I saw him in the village right after the cadets left."
"Anywhere near Mr. Fairchild's shop?"
"On the road that runs back of the shop."