"Bound for Buffalo, I suppose."
"Yes."
"First visit to that city?"
"Yes."
"Well, it's a fine city to visit, I can tell you. Of course you'll run up to look at Niagara Falls?"
"I hadn't thought of that."
"It's not very far away, you know. The trolley cars run from Buffalo to the Falls and back."
"Then I'll certainly have to go up and look at the Falls," answered the boy.
He was too excited to make up his mind just what to do next, and so walked away from the man. Finding a secluded corner of the deck, he sat down on a camp stool to think the situation over.
The fact that his uncle believed he had tried to burn down the barn filled him with alarm. Certainly, the building must have been set on fire, but who had done the base deed?