CHAPTER XIII
JOHNNY REPORTS TO THE CHIEF
“How much progress are you making on your investigation?” the Chief asked Johnny as he came in next morning.
“Three suspects and no arrests,” smiled Johnny.
“Tell me about them.”
“There’s the one you gave me—Knobs.”
“Know anything new about him?”
“Not a thing.”
“And the others? Tell me about them.”
Johnny told of the pink-eyed man and the tall stooped one who limped. Without thinking much about it, he told the Chief for the first time of his visits to the marsh, of his mysterious assailant out there, and of his fight with the unknown man on Ben Zook’s island.
The Chief listened intently. “You don’t always take another’s judgment about things, do you?”