The Banner Boy Scouts Mystery by George A. Warren

Author:George A. Warren [Warren, George A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-04T22:00:00+00:00

“Yes. Now what?”

Silence. The boys knitted their brows. If they had stopped their press, Jack asked himself, would they be coming out of the cellar now? And if they were, which door would they use? Possibly they would come out by the front door because they might not care to use the same door for an exit as well as an entrance. But if they did use the rear door how would the boys find it? Jack looked around. It might be in either of three directions, he reasoned to himself—on either sides of the house or to the rear; to the front was the sidewalk and street, which would be a most improbable means for a tunnel or other form of approach and exit. “Stay here,” he whispered to Ken. “I’m going back to my place. We will stay here another half hour, and if nothing happens, I have other plans.”

“What?”

“I’ll tell you later.”

Jack crept back to his hiding place. With nothing else to do but to wait and watch he again became conscious of the darkness and of time dragging. There was utter stillness and he could hear himself breathe; the tick of his watch in his pocket sounded extraordinarily loud. He waited. A few pedestrians passed by. He waited some more. He counted every minute. When the time was up a low muffled whistle issued from his lips. He turned his head and saw Ken creep out of his place. Together they sneaked out of the yard and walked off. Ken asked, “Well, what are your other plans?”

“I was thinking,” said Jack, “that they must have another way of getting in and out—”

“Yes, you mentioned that once before.”

“Well, what I was really trying to determine is where that other entrance might be. Now, logically, it can be at any one of three places. There might be a tunnel leading away from the cellar of the house on either side or at the rear. What we have to do, therefore, is to examine those three possibilities.”

“But we can’t do much tonight,” remarked Ken. “For one thing it’s dark and there isn’t much we can see. And secondly, it’s late already.”

“That’s very true, but I certainly would like to get an idea of how the land lays.”

“We can leave that for tomorrow. Now I think we ought to go over and see if Paul is waiting for us.”

“That’s right. I almost forgot about him. I wonder if he came across anything.”

“Well, I only hope that he didn’t have to spend such a dull time as we did,” was Ken’s comment.

“You have to take things as they come,” answered Jack. “Sometimes there is plenty to do and at other times there is nothing to do.”

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