Ted started to tell them, mournfully.
"I don't believe a word of that, Ted," Dick broke in energetically.
"I'm telling you just as it happened," Teall protested.
"Oh, I guess you are, all right. But I don't believe Hi had his watch with him. If he had had it, he would have worn a chain or a fob, and I didn't see any, did you, fellows?"
"If I thought he had fooled me——-" muttered Ted vengefully.
Then, with a change of feeling, he continued:
"But I don't believe he was fooling me. Hi was too mad, and he looked as though he'd like nothing better than to see me get into big trouble over it."
"You went all over the ground where you'd been?" Dick asked.
"Must have gone over it seventeen times," Ted declared positively. "I didn't quit looking until it was so dark that my eyes ached with the strain. But not one sight did I catch of the watch."
"Don't worry any more about it, Teall," urged Dave Darrin. "Like Dick, I don't believe, for an instant, that Hi had his watch with him."
"Here comes Hi now, out of the ice cream place," whispered Greg.