A good many
persons up in these parts wear whiskers." Janus stroked his own
reflectively. "And then again, a good many more do not, so I don't see
that his whiskers prove much. Wish I might have seen him. If you
don't mind I'll go up there now and see what I can find."
Harriet said she would accompany him and assist in the search.
"You couldn't recognize in him the man we saw on the station platform
at Compton the night of our arrival, could you, Hazel?" asked the
guardian.
"Oh, no. I don't believe it was the same person at all."
"Then we are no wiser than before, except that it behooves us to keep
our eyes open. If that man has followed us into the mountains we shall
hear more of him. Do you find anything up there, Harriet?"
"We find where he has broken down some bushes, but that is all. No
footprints. I might possibly pick up his trail, but over the rocks
there would be slight chance of running it down."
"I couldn't permit it," was Miss Elting's decisive reply. "Come down.
Jane, will you please start the fire? We will have breakfast."
"Oh, yeth, we haven't had breakfatht yet," piped Tommy.
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