“Midge and I just brought ’em from the river.”
“The river?” echoed Dan. “I don’t get it.”
“Midge and I were hiking out that way,” Red explained. “All at once, we came upon these two cans.”
“How did they get there?”
“Someone carried ’em, that’s what,” Red went on grimly. “Pat and his gang, I’ll bet. The kids from Bay Shore play along the river a lot. They’ve made a stick and grass hut down by the Hi-Level Bridge.”
“It was near the hut that we found the freezers,” Midge added.
The Cubs were relieved to recover the missing containers, but uncertain what to do with them. One of the freezers seemed as good as new after they had washed out the metal cylinder which bore traces of melted ice cream. The other can was bent and the lid missing.
“We looked everywhere in the brush for it,” Midge reported. “Couldn’t find it anywhere.”
Brad told the Cubs that not a moment must be lost in returning the stolen property to Terry Treuhaft.
“All we can do is try to explain to him again what happened, and offer to pay for the damaged freezer,” he advised.