08. The Mystery of Cabin Island by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XI

A Cryptic Notation

“THE ghost that Chet saw!” Frank exclaimed as he stared at the snapshot of the white-robed man.

“Y-you think so?” Chet asked incredulously.

“It could be!” Joe declared. “I wonder who this person is, how he got here, and where he is now.”

“Perhaps he came with Hanleigh,” Biff suggested.

“I doubt it,” Frank replied. “Look at the way the fellow’s standing back in the shadow of the trees, almost as if he was spying on Hanleigh.”

Frank paused, then added, “First thing tomorrow Joe and I will go to the mainland and phone Ike and Tad. If they’re sore at Hanleigh, maybe they’ll give us a lead on what his game is.”

“Yes, and we’ll ask if they’re running taxi service for a ghost!” Joe grinned.

“Maybe this turbaned fellow stole our food,” Chet remarked. “Say, what are we going to do about that?”

Frank laughed. “Tomorrow Joe and I will buy supplies. But you and Biff will have to stay and guard the island.”

“I’ll admit I’m hungry as a bear, too,” Joe said.

“Likewise!” Biff put in.

“Well, fellows,” Chet began sheepishly, “I—er—forgot about this until now, but—er—we can have a snack.”

The others stared at the rotund youth, who reddened as he explained. “When I made sandwiches for lunch, I put some away—in case of emergency!”

“Where are they?” asked Joe. “We searched all over this place!”

Chet went into the bedroom he and Biff shared and returned with five thick sandwiches in a large plastic bag.

“Come on! Where’d you hide them?” Biff asked.

“In the bottom of my sleeping bag.”

“You weren’t thinking of an emergency!” Joe scoffed. “This was to be your midnight snack!”

“Aren’t you glad!” Chet countered.

“You win,” Frank said, and they devoured the sandwiches.

Early the next morning Frank and Joe felt insistent fingers tapping them awake. “Get up!” Chet implored. “You have to go after groceries.”

The Hardys dressed hurriedly. Frank told Biff and Chet, “While we’re away, you might search the island for our stolen grub. Chances are that Hanleigh hid it all in one place not far from the cabin.”

Frank and Joe glided off in the iceboat, steered out of the cove, and soon were tying up at a nearby coastal summer resort named Surfside. The boys walked to the deserted main street. “Place is really hopping, isn’t it?” Frank chuckled, surveying the tiny, weatherworn houses, many of them boarded up.

“Anyway, here’s a phone.” Joe pointed to an outside booth. He stood by and listened while his brother dialed Ike Nash’s number.

“No answer,” Frank reported. “I’ll try Tad.”

The Carson boy was home, but his responses to Frank’s queries were rude and uncooperative.

“I don’t know anything,” Tad insisted. “Hanleigh told us to scram and not to snoop around. So we left.”

“How about a man wearing a white robe? Did you taxi him to Cabin Island too?”

“White robe? You’re nuts!” Tad guffawed and hung up abruptly.

“That didn’t accomplish much,” Frank said wryly as he and Joe walked away from the booth. “Let’s see if we can find a place to buy food.”

Presently the boys stopped at a small frame building.

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