"What note?"
"The message signed Will."
The boys looked at each other, as they all shook their heads.
"That is one of the mysteries which George and I thought you could solve."
"Mysteries! Did you have many of them?"
"Many of them! We had over a dozen, and some of them are still on the puzzle board. Do you remember Raggy, the drawing teacher? He[p. 208] always liked to call some of our drawings the unsolved puzzles. I wonder where he is? We had enough mysteries the first three months to supply headaches for a year."
"We want to know about them."
"We'll tell you all about them; and some were mighty thrilling. We had some just as exciting as any you ever read of in the last boys' series that we had about two years ago."
"You see," said George, in a sage-like tone, "Harry and I don't read books of that kind any more; we simply act them." And the boys, and men, too, laughed at this sally.
"Stop your talking for a while and eat something," continued George.