"Come in again, Jack," said the judge when the boys were leaving,
"always glad to see you. You have cleared up part of the mystery,
anyhow. You are so much better a detective than we are," he added
laughingly, "that I don't know but what we shall have to put the
case in your hands."
"Oh, it wasn't anything, judge," responded Jack, "just putting two
and two together."
CHAPTER XI
FORMING THE PATROL
"Don't you think," began Pepper.
"Why not, Pepper?" asked Rand.
"What objection is there to our thinking?"
The four boys were, a couple of days later, on their way back to
the town from the river, where they had been for an early morning
swim.
"None whatever," retorted Pepper, "if you were capable of doing
it."
"Now listen to that!" cried Rand. "Pepper thinks he's the only one
that can think. If you have got any thinks in your think-tank open
the valve and let some of them escape."
"One at a time, Pepper," added Donald; "make it easy for us."
"All through your interruptions?" asked Pepper; "because, if you
are, I'll elucidate.
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