CHAPTER VII

Gus Montrose Detective Smuff walked back as far as the road with the boys, and then clambered into his car, where another detective on the Bayport force was waiting for him. “You’re just wastin’ your time hunting through the woods,” he told the boys heavily. “A car couldn’t get down there, anyway, and we’ve hunted through there pretty thoroughly in the second place.” “It’ll give us something to do,” Frank said cheerfully. “Keep you out of mischief, I guess,” agreed Smuff, as though this were some consolation at any…