Well, the Government
always sends out smart men belonging to the Secret Service to round
these chaps up. I was speculating on whether those two strangers
Ralph saw mightn't be detectives. I reckon they looked as if they
wanted to detect, all right; and let me tell you, p'raps we're
under the ban of suspicion right now."
Bud ended his remarks in a rather awed voice, but neither of the others
seemed to be at all worried. Indeed, Hugh chuckled as though amused.
"It may be that you've guessed the right answer, Bud," he said, "but
all the same I don't believe it. There's something deeper about
those men than that. And unless I miss my guess, we'll find in the
end, if we learn anything at all, that they've got some sort of
connection with that queer flash and crash that gave us such a scare
earlier in the night."
Bud stared at Hugh on hearing this.
"Whee! do you really think so, Hugh?" he muttered, as though trying
to grasp what all this might stand for, and yet hardly able to
comprehend its full significance.
After all their talk, however, they were really no nearer a solution
of the matter in the end than when they started to discuss it. Hugh
said they would have to wait and see what turned up next, before
settling on any one explanation and both the other scouts agreed
with him.
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