"I guess it is a clear case against
Caven, and Pop is innocent."
"I wish we could tell Pop of it," put in Dick.
"He must feel awfully bad."
"I will do what I can for the negro, Rover. I am very sorry
indeed, now, that I suspected him," said Captain Putnam, with a
slow shake of his head.
At the bottom of the trunk was a pocketbook containing nearly all
of the money which had been stolen. A footing-up revealed the
fact that two watches and three gold shirt studs were still
missing.
"And those were pawned in Auburn," said Sam. "Just wait and see
if I am not right."
A party was organized to hunt for Caven, and the captain himself
went to Auburn that very evening. The hunt for the missing boy
proved unsuccessful, and it may be added here that he never turned
up at Putnam Hall again nor at his home in Middletown, having run
away to the West.
When Captain Putnam came back he announced that he had recovered
all but one watch. The various goods and the money were distributed
among their rightful owners, and it must be confessed that a big
sigh of relief went up from the cadets who had suffered. The
single missing timepiece was made good to the boy who had lost it,
by the captain buying a similar watch for the youth.
After this several weeks passed without anything of special
interest occurring outside of a stirring baseball match with a
club from Ithaca, which Putnam Hall won by a score of six to
three.
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