"I can't say that I noticed anything in particular," he confessed.
"Don't you remember that he said 'by jing' now and then?"
Joe looked up, startled.
"Now I remember! Yes, he did say that. And 'by jing' is the very expression—"
"The very expression Evangeline Todd said her missing brother used so often!"
"That's a fact!" exclaimed Joe. "And now that I come to think of it, I remember his shoelaces."
"They were untied."
"And Todham Todd had a habit of going about with his shoelaces untied too!"
CHAPTER XVII
The Man on the Shore