"That's all true," added Jack. "There hasn't been any mischief perpetrated in town for the last four or five years that he hasn't been at the bottom of it."
"He puts the other boys up to do all kinds of things and keeps in the dark himself,jordans," continued Pepper.
"He would have been put away long ago," went on Jack, "if it wasn't for his father's political pull."
"Where did you learn all these things, Jack?" asked the colonel.
"Oh, we find out a good many things in the newspaper business, you know."
"So it seems," admitted the colonel. "What has Master Tompkins been doing lately?"
"That's hard to tell," replied Jack laughingly, "he does so many things. I hear he is going to get up an opposition patrol."
"Who would he get to join it?" asked Gerald, scornfully.
"Oh, he can find plenty to do that," replied Jack. "You know he always has plenty of money to spend."
"There's Monkey Rae and Looney Burns," said Pepper, "they would be in it."
"And Kid Murphy," added Dick.
"I wonder--" began Jack, and stopped, seemingly lost in thought.
"What is it now, Jack?" asked Rand, "trying to put two and two together?"
"I was," replied Jack, "but it don't seem to come out four."
"What is it this time, addition or multiplication?" asked Donald.
"Must be division, I think," laughed Jack. "I was wondering if Sam had anything to do with the robbery of Judge Taylor's office."
"Of course not," asserted Pepper. "What would he want to do that for?"
"I don't know," answered Jack, "or what any one else would, for that matter. But it would be just like him."
"I don't think he was guilty of that," remarked the colonel, "that was the work of men."
"But there was a boy in it," asserted Jack.
"It wouldn't be Sam," declared Pepper. "He might put others up to it, but you wouldn't find him climbing in any windows!"
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"Not since the day he stole the fish," returned Pepper.
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"Hope it isn't around here!" cried Pepper. "Say, fellows, we had better take a scout through the woods and make sure."
"Come along, then," said Rand, "and we will rout him out if he is anywhere about."
Starting out under the leadership of Rand the boys explored the woods in every direction for some distance from the camp without seeing any signs of any one being in the neighborhood.
"Going back to the flag," said the colonel, when the boys had returned, "while we are waiting for the dinner to be done, can any of you tell the history of the flag? Of its origin and how it came into being?"
"The first American flag was made in Philadelphia by Betsy Ross, in 1775, was it not?"
"According to tradition," replied the colonel, "but history doesn't bear it out. The earliest flag to be used by the colonies was the Liberty Flag, which was presented to the Council of Safety of Charleston, by Colonel Moultrie, in September, 1775."
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