"
"Thank you, sir," said Hugh, flushing with keen pleasure at hearing
such words of praise from an army officer. "And perhaps you may
not know that there are others up here who seem to be deeply
interested in all that you are doing."
"What is that, my boy?" exclaimed the other, showing sudden interest.
"Why, by chance my friend here, Ralph Kenyon, who has trapped all
through this section in years gone by, saw two men talking and acting
in a strange way. They've been spying on us, too, while we've
occupied the old shack close by. They even crept in while we were
off yesterday, to steal some plans of an aeroplane improvement which
this other scout, Bud Morgan, had carelessly left there."
"Two men, you say," the officer commented, knitting his brows with
sudden suspicion and uneasiness. "Could you tell whether they seemed
to look like natives or foreigners, son and he wheeled so as to face
Ralph as he asked this.
"I had an idea that one looked like a Japanese and the other a
German," the boy answered promptly.
At this, the army man rubbed his chin and seemed to consider.
"I've taken you into my confidence so far already, boys," he observed
presently, "that I suppose I might as well go right along and tell
you everything.
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