"Don't you think we'd better get Miss Race?" asked Chet eagerly. "She'd be able to show us just where the fellow disappeared, and everything."
"But it will take too long," Ferd was objecting, when Miss Race herself, with two or three of the other teachers and Miss Walters, came hurrying toward them.
"What are you going to do, boys?" asked Miss Walters, looking worried.
The boys explained quickly, and Teddy, turning eagerly to Miss Race, asked her to go with them as far as the woods and point out the place where the thief had disappeared.
Miss Race was still white from her fright. But she was angry, too, for the pocketbook she had lost contained a good deal of money.
"Yes, I'll go," she said, then added, turning quickly to her principal: "That is, if you don't mind, Miss Walters."
Miss Walters still looked troubled, but she shook her head slowly.
"I think it will be all right," she said, adding as the boys started eagerly off: "Only be careful, boys, and don't get hurt. The man may be desperate if he finds himself cornered."
The girls started to follow the boys, but Miss Walters checked them.
"You can't help," she said when they looked at her reproachfully. "And since I'm responsible for you, you will stay right here."