"Hum! Let me see!" and the marine pretended to be thinking very hard. "Is it——"
"It's your watch!" burst out Mun Bun. "We were playing sick dolls, and Russ was the doctor and he had a valise and——"
"Oh, what'd you tell him for? Why didn't you let him guess?" asked Laddie.
But the secret was out now.
"My watch! My wrist watch! Do you mean you found my watch that the French soldier gave me?" cried Captain Ben.
"Yes, here it is," and Mrs. Bunker handed it to her relative, telling him how it had been found.
"Well, I never!" exclaimed Captain Ben. "I had given that up as lost forever. I should say you did have luck here, even if we were not lucky in catching the tramps."
"So they got away, did they?" asked Mother Bunker, after Captain Ben had fastened his watch on his wrist.
"Yes. In the motor boat, which they must have stolen, they were too speedy for us. Then, too, they had a good start. But we have not given up. Word has been sent to the police all around here and the men may be caught any moment. They won't bother us again, that's sure."
"I'm glad of that," said Mother Bunker.