CHAPTER XXV

A Scoundrel Punished The reception that Ted Scott and Frank Bruin received when they reached Lumberport passed all power of description. They were greeted almost as those who had risen from the dead. They had wanted to avoid any public excitement, and before they had taken the train they had wired Maxwell Bruin, telling him the news but asking him to keep it quiet until they arrived. They found the man waiting for them at the railroad station with a bear’s hug for each of them and a heart overflowing with affection…