"  It's  at  our  hotel."

"  I  thought  some  one  came  along  and  stole  it,"
Ned  replied.  "  I  was  afraid  to  ask  about  it  for
fear  I'd  be  arrested.  I  didn't  even  dare  go  for
my  trunk."

"That's  safe  at  the  depot,"  said  Bart,  "but
you'll  have  to  pay  storage  charges  on  it.  Well,
well,  how  this  thing  has  worked  out !  '

"  We've  solved  two  mysteries  instead  of  one,"
Frank  remarked.  "  Here's  William  ready  to  go
back  to  his  mother,"  and  he  told  Ned  who  Wil-
liam was.
"  So  you're  the  boy  who  was  watching  me  this
afternoon  when  Cassidy  came  for  me?'  Ned
asked.  "  I  was  afraid  you  might  be  a  detective,
and  so  I  wouldn't  admit  who  I  was."

"  We'll  start  for  home  in  the  morning,"  declared
Mr.  Wilding.
"  And  maybe  get  into  more  trouble  there,"  put
in  Fenn.
"How?"  asked  Ned.  "If  there's  any  more
trouble  I  want  to  get  it  all  over  with  at  once."


NED  IS  FOUND  — CONCLUSION        237

They  suspect  us  of  blowing  up  the  school
tower!'  exclaimed  Frank.
"Oh,  that!"  cried  Mr.  Wilding.  "I  guess
I  forgot  to  tell  you  about  that,  I  was  so  busy
thinking  of  Ned.  That's  all  cleared  up !  '

"  How  ?"  asked  Bart.
They  found  out  it  was  done  by  a  wicked  boy
named  Peter  Sanderson.  He  thought  it  was  a
joke  to  set  off  a  dynamite  cartridge,  but  he  found
out  it  wasn't.  He's  been  sent  to  the  reform
school  and  his  father  has  to  pay  a  big  bill  for
damages.  I  got  a  letter  from  Fenn's  father  this
morning,  telling  me  all  about  it.  So  you  boys  can
go  home  with  everything  cleared  up."

"  And  we'll  take  William  with  us,"  said
Bart.
