If the boys could be kept together until they went on board the steamboat, there would be no further trouble, for he was certain that the two rascals did not intend to take passage on the Von Glode.
Having settled these points in his mind, he set off for the house of the stately gentleman, which was on the main street of the town.
CHAPTER XXIX.
HOW ADAM WAS BAGGED.
When Adam reached the house, the family had just sat down to supper, and that meal had been prepared for him in another room. He did not think it necessary to disturb the little company.
He asked one of the servants to give him notice as soon as the supper should be over, and then he sat down to his own meal.
Before very long he heard the sound of chairs pushed back from the table, and then the colored woman informed him that “the folks had done finished.”
Instantly Adam arose and hurried to the front of the house. There upon the porch he saw Phil and Phœnix, and calling them to him, he hurriedly asked where Chap was.
“Oh,” said Phœnix, “it don’t take him long to eat. He got through before any of us, and asked to be excused. I suppose there is something in the town that he wants to investigate.”
Adam almost turned pale when he heard this.