"There he is! There is the man with the goggles!" she whispered,
pointing toward the store. They saw a stoop-shouldered man standing
with his back against the large window. He was facing them, but, his
face being in the shadow, they were unable to distinguish the features.
The light in the store being at his back, and his head slightly turned
to the steps, toward which Janus was moving, Harriet Burrell was
enabled to look directly through one of the lenses. She saw that the
glass was green and that it masked effectually the eyes of the strange
man.
"Quick, Mr. Grubb!" cried the girl. "The man again! Find out who he
is!"
Janus, who had moved down to the second step, now started back, and was
on the porch with one bound, thrusting the Meadow-Brook Girls aside in
his eagerness to reach the man who had impersonated him.
"Where is he?" shouted Janus, in a voice that brought most of the
villagers from the store on the run. "I see him!" Grubb made a leap,
when, as though he had vanished into thin air, the stranger disappeared
from sight.
The Meadow-Brook Girls gasped in amazement.
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