"Gentlemen, there is no necessity of waiting until to-morrow night. I can give you my answer now. I want nothing to do with such crooked business as you have proposed to me to-night. I bid you good night, gentlemen."
Steve Rush rose and left the room without another word.
CHAPTER X
THE GENTLEMAN IN THE WOODPILE
"BOB, I've torn down the woodpile," announced Steve, as he entered their room at the boarding house half an hour later.
"What woodpile?" demanded Jarvis blankly.
"The one we have been guessing about; and I've found the black gentleman who has been in hiding there."
"You don't mean that you have solved the mystery?"