As he started to accompany the two men, Dan turned away.
“Aren’t you the boy who found the box at the church?” Captain Eggleston asked him.
“Yes, sir.”
“Then you may as well stick around,” the captain advised. “We may have a few questions to fire at you too!”
CHAPTER 12
A Pair of Legs
Feeling almost as if he were a suspect in a crime case, Dan followed Mr. Hatfield and the two police officers into the house.
Captain Eggleston began the interview by asking routine questions of both Dan and Mr. Hatfield. Then abruptly he announced that a check had been made of the car license number noted down by the Cubs on the night of the heavy rain storm.
“The automobile belongs to Frank Jankowski, a salesman for the V. H. Everetts Hardware Co.,” he informed.
“Mr. Jankowski!” Dan exclaimed.
“Obviously, the boys were mistaken in thinking that the car was following us,” Mr. Hatfield said. “Imagination plays strange tricks on the mind. I thought myself—at least for a while—that we were being followed.”