"We went directly up the lake," said Giant. "Took the road around
the rocks that Jed Sanborn showed us. We found the nut trees,
and----"
"Never mind the nut trees," interrupted Snap. "Tell me about
that man."
"Well, back of the trees is a cleared spot---maybe it was a farm
some years ago, and in the midst of the clearing is an old,
half-tumbled-down cottage. We walked over to the cottage and looked
in at the window."
"And we saw a man sitting on a box with a barrel before him,"
put in Shep. "On the barrel he had a board and on the board were
spread some papers that the man was looking over. The man was
tall and thin, and had red hair and a short, red moustache"
"That tallies with the man who stole the money and the papers!"
cried Snap, excitedly. "Did he limp, too?"
"Slightly, with his left foot."
"He must be our man. But what is he doing around here?"
"I don't know," answered Shep. "As soon as he saw us he jumped
up and put the papers in his pocket."
"What did you do?" asked Whopper.
"He asked us what we wanted, and Shep told him we were out nutting,"
said Giant.
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