"Where is the boy we sent on ahead of us?
He must have reached here a long time ago." The guards looked surprised at the question.
"Why," one of them said, "no one came here from below but yourselves.
We have seen no one." Nestor stood for a moment as if he thought the men were playing a trick on him, then the gravity of the situation asserted itself.

What mischief was afoot in the mountains?
Why had the boys disappeared, while there had been no attempt to obstruct the passage of the secret service men as they moved about?
"It seems, then, that there is another lost boy," said Lieutenant Gordon.

"That makes four.

It is most remarkable." "Yes," said Nestor, "Fremont, Jimmie, Shaw, and this drummer you told me about.

I think we have our work cut out for us now." "It is the second time Peter Fenton has been lost to-night," Gordon said, with a smile.