The children giggled to think that Fatty's cigar-ends had made Mr. Goon get all excited when he saw Jake smoking a cigar. Then Luke looked at the whistle that Fatty held.
"Yes; that's one I made," he said. "I lost it somewhere in the garden. How could it have got into the cats' cage? I made that whistle months ago."
They all talked over the mystery again, but somehow they could not make head or tail of it
Between them the children managed to supply Luke with plenty of food. They gave him a pail of water and soap and an old towel. They made up a bed for him each night in the summer-house. And, in return, Luke worked in the vegetable garden whenever Pip's mother was out, weeding it carefully and doing all he could to make it nice. The kitchen-garden was far away from the house and he could not be seen.
"Must do something in return for your kindness," he said to the children. And they liked him all the better for it. For three days Luke stayed in Pip's garden, and then things began to happen again.
Mr. Goon is Very Suspicious
One afternoon Mr. Goon met Fatty and Buster, and he stopped them.
"I want a word with you, Master Frederick," he said in his pompous voice.
"I'm afraid I can't stop," said Fatty in a polite voice. "I'm taking Buster for a walk."
"You just stop where you are," said Clear-Orf angrily. "I tell you I've got something to say to you."