“Then he has been here! They were lying!”
“Are you sure it was dad’s cap?” asked Joe.
“Positive. I’d recognize it anywhere. And more than that, there were bloodstains on it.”
“Bloodstains!”
Frank nodded.
The boys looked at one another in silence.
“This is serious,” declared Joe finally. “We can’t let them get away with this.”
“I’ll say we can’t,” agreed Chet. “Let’s go back.”
“I was going to argue it out right there and then, but I thought I’d better tell the rest of you first so that you’d know what it was all about,” Frank explained.
“He may have been—” Joe left the sentence unfinished.