DETECTIVE WORK
"Nat Wingate!" chorused the Ramblers, in astonishment.
"Surprised to see me, eh?" chuckled the former chief of the Nimrods.
He burst into a laugh.
"I just lit out," he said; "guess Uncle Parsons will be wild when he finds that I've given him the slip."
"I'll bet he will," said Dick.
"But it will be nothing to the way that poor old 'Hacky' is going to feel. My, but isn't he in a state of mind! Ha, ha, ha! Just think of the whole crowd being taken back to Kingswood like a parcel of little kids."
"Going to let your uncle know you are with us?"
"Guess so. Wait till I get a chair, and I'll join the company."
"Well, what do you think of this?" whispered Bob.