"Must be division, I think," laughed Jack. "I was wondering if Sam had anything to do with the robbery of Judge Taylor's office."
"Of course not," asserted Pepper. "What would he want to do that for?"
"I don't know," answered Jack, "or what any one else would, for that matter. But it would be just like him."
"I don't think he was guilty of that," remarked the colonel, "that was the work of men."
"But there was a boy in it," asserted Jack.
"It wouldn't be Sam," declared Pepper. "He might put others up to it, but you wouldn't find him climbing in any windows!"
"See anything of Monkey lately?" interjected Rand.
"Not since the day he stole the fish," returned Pepper.
"Haven't seen him in three or four days," said Dick. "It's queer, too, for he used to come in the shop almost every day. Nor Sam either; they must be camping out somewhere."
"Hope it isn't around here!" cried Pepper. "Say, fellows, we had better take a scout through the woods and make sure."