"
"I will question Baxter closely," answered Captain Putnam. "But I
do not wish to hold him guilty of something of which most likely
he knows nothing."
George Strong had by this time come in, and he was sent to bring
Baxter. He was gone but, a few minutes when he came back in high
excitement.
"Baxter has broken out of the guardroom!" he, exclaimed. "I
cannot find him anywhere!"
"Did you look in the dormitory?"
"Yes, sir; and his valise is gone, and his trunk is empty of all
of value."
"Humph!" Captain Putnam's brow contracted. "This looks very
suspicious."
At that moment one of the smaller cadets came in with a note in
his hand.
"I just met Baxter running down the road!" exclaimed the little
fellow. "He gave me this for you, Captain Putnam."
At once the proprietor of the Hall tore open the communication and
read it half aloud:
"Good-by to Putnam Hall forever. It is full of fellows who are no
good and run by a man I never liked. No use of following me, for
I am going to join my father, and I don't mean to come back.
"DAN BAXTER
"P. S. -- Tell the Rover boys I shan't forget them, and some day I
shall take pains to square accounts.
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