“And get our soap for to-morrow’s business,” said Peg.
“Exactly.”
We stopped at Scoop’s barn and got a small bag of oats for Romeo. Then we hurried in the direction of the brick house, where Tom was guarding the talking frog.
We had a lot to tell him. [[83]]
CHAPTER IX
THE MYSTERY DEEPENS
The soap man was interesting to me because he was the first spy that I had ever come in contact with. I figured that he must be a sort of detective.
Still, I considered, in the course of my thoughts, he was a queer-looking and a queer-acting detective. Not at all like the detectives that I had read about in stories.
For instance, there was his shabby old horse. What was his object in keeping it? Was it to create the impression, beyond all possible doubt, that he was indeed a poor soap peddler, traveling by horse and buggy from town to town?