On the way down the mountain they picked up Jack and Kernertok and they were much surprised as well as gratified when they learned how the affair had turned out.
It was nearly noon when they reached the dam and the sheriff insisted that the boys and Kernertok help them eat the bountiful lunch which he had brought with him. Soon after the men, together with their prisoners, departed in the two cars in which they had made the trip up and, after bidding them good-bye the four friends started on their way up the lake.
“Well, that chapter is closed so far as we’re concerned,” Jack declared.
“And mighty satisfactorily,” Bob added.
“The question now is whether the ghost has gone with them,” Jack said.
“That’s what,” Bob agreed.
“How you betting?”
“That it has. Take me?”
“Nope. That’s my bet too.”
They were in no hurry to get back and took it easy so that it was nearly three o’clock when they reached the camp. There was no one on the wharf and no one in sight about the camp as they walked slowly up the bank toward the big cabin.