The
man was restored to reason, and through his testimony Giant's mother
obtained some money which had been tied up in the courts.
The finding of the man had brought the boy hunters back to Fairview
before their summer vacation was half finished. What to do next was
the question.
"We ought to go somewhere---staying at home is dead slow," was the
way one of the lads expressed himself; but for a week or more nothing
was done.
Whistling gaily to himself, Shep Reed hurried down to the lake front.
As he came out on one of the docks he caught sight of Snap, surrounded
by half a dozen other lads, all carrying various bundles, and all
equipped with guns and fishing-rods.
"Ham Spink and his cronies," murmured the doctor's son to himself.
"Wonder where they are bound?"
"Oh, we are going to have the outing of our lives this trip," Ham
Spink was declaring in his usual lordly fashion. "It's going to be
the finest outing ever started from this town."
"Where are you going?" asked Snap curiously.
"Do you suppose we are going to tell you?" demanded another boy, a
lad named Carl Dudder.
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