So  much  more  great  than  I  'ad  guessed  —
An*  me,  like  all  the  rest,  alone,

But  reachin'  out  to  all  the  rest!


iCr  T  NCLE  CAM,  where  is  O'mie?    I  have  n't  seen  him

^J    yet,''  I  broke  in  upon  the  older  men  in  the  council.
^  Could  anything  have  happened  to  him?  "

The  priest  rose  hurriedly.
^'I  have  been  hoping  to  see  him  every  minute,''  he
said.     **  Has  anybody  seen  him  this  morning?  "

A  flurry  followed.  Everybody  thought  he  had  seen
somebody  else  who  had  been  with  O'mie,  but  nobody,  first
hand,  could  report  of  him.
**  Why,  I  thought  he  was  with  the  boys,"  Cam  'Gentry
exclaimed.  '*  Nobody  could  keep  track  of  nobody  else
last  night."

**  I  thought  I  saw  him  this  morning,"  said  Dr.  Heming-
way. "But" — hesitatingly — "I  do  not  believe  I  did
either.  I  just  had  him  in  mind  as  I  watched  Henry  An-
derson's bojrs  go  by."

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THE    SEARCH    FOR    THE    MISSING

**  All  three  of  us  are  not  equal  to  one  O'mie/*  Clayton
Anderson  declared.
"  What  part  of  town  did  he  have,  Philip?  "  asked  Le
Claire.
"  No  part,**  I  answered.  "  We  had  to  take  the  boys  that
were  out  there  under  the  oak."

Dr.  Hemingway  called  a  council  at  once,  and  all  who
knew  anything  of  the  missing  boy  reported.  I  could  give
what  had  been  told  to  Aunt  Candace  and  m3rself  only  in
a  general  way,  in  order  to  shield  Tell  Mapleson.  Capi
had  seen  O'mie  only  a  minute,  just  before  midnight.
