“Money for what?” asked Paul, surprised.
“I don’t know, sir. He just said some young men were to bring him some money and I thought it might be you, so I was going to tell you he said to take it over to Lumberport and leave it at Rector’s cigar store for him, as he won’t be back for a couple of days.”
“Then he hasn’t gone on school business, to-day?” exclaimed Jerry, with a rising inflection in his voice.
“No, sir.”
CHAPTER XVII—THE TRIP TO LUMBERPORT
After thanking the janitor’s wife for her information, the boys left the house.
“Funny Tony should be going to stay away a couple of days,” remarked Paul, as he walked along.
Both his companions agreed with him, but as Harry had lived in Rivertown so short a time, he was little acquainted with the habits of Farelli, and so he could offer no intelligent comment.
“It seems to me we ought to get over to Lumberport as quickly as we can,” announced Jerry. “If we can locate Tony and pull the story out of him before anyone else gets to him, it will be some feather in our caps.”
“It seems to me we ought to tell Dawson, and some of the other boys,” declared Harry. “If there really is any crooked work they will be more likely to make the janitor tell about it than we would, I should think, considering the fact that they have been at the school four years.”