CHAPTER XXII

Through the Roof The Hardy boys always said that the few seconds in which they stood in the shadow of the willow tree with the suspicious Markel almost within arm’s length of them, not knowing whether they had been discovered or not, were the longest seconds they had ever known. It seemed hours before they finally heard Markel give a grunt of satisfaction and trudge away in the opposite direction. Even then it was minutes before they dared move, before they ventured to raise their heads and look about them. When at…