Merriwell's friends, after
being taken to New York, had shortly fallen in with a party of Yale
students, mostly seniors, who had come down from New Haven on the
steamer _Richard Peck_, and were on their way to view the new government
fortifications at Sandy Hook, by special permission of General Merritt,
commander of the Department of the East. This permission had been
obtained by Lieutenant Andrew Bell, of the First United States
Artillery, who had recently been detailed by the secretary of war as
professor of military science in Yale College.
Merriwell's friends had been invited to join this company of students,
that they might the more quickly reach their friends, and had been
brought to Sandy Hook by the government steamer _General Meigs_. From
Sandy Hook the steamer's large steam-launch had hurried them on to Glen
Springs.
"And now you are going right back with us to Sandy Hook!" Elsie
enthusiastically exclaimed.
Suddenly a silence fell on the jolly party, occasioned by the shadow
that came over the face of Frank Merriwell.
"I can't go until we have settled the mystery of Barney Mulloy," he
declared; and then gave a hurried account of what he and Bart had seen
and heard.
"I hoped you wouldn't say nothin' about that!" grumbled the landlord,
who had been until then an interested listener.
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