“Be heavens, it’s a bloody murdher, then!” exclaimed Barney.
“So it seems. Help me in with this fellow till we revive him.”
They carried Reynard into the sitting-room, laid him down, and seeing his badge, discovered that he was a detective.
Restoratives were applied and he began to revive, upon observing which Frank went out to get the dead boy.
When he reached the gate, to his amazement he found that the body of little Joe Crosby had mysteriously disappeared.
Frank hunted all over, but failed to find it.
Completely at a loss to account for the mysterious disappearance, he returned to the house and told his friends about it.
Reynard had recovered.
Sitting on the sofa, he heard that the body was gone.
Then he told Frank and his friends what had occurred.