"I was intendin' to set up and watch for it, if you hadn't come," he
finally admitted.
No one answering to Barney's description had been seen in Glen Springs
through the day. In fact, no stranger whatever had been seen in the
place from the time the launch went away until it returned.
"It's mighty curious," Bart grimly observed.
"I have a feeling that we will learn to-night just what it is," said
Merriwell.
Frank occupied his old room, and sat at the window with Hodge, while
Diamond, Rattleton, and Bruce remained in the office. The doors leading
to the corridor were at first closed. Merry looked at his watch after
the lights were put out in the part of the building occupied by the
landlord and his family.
"It ought to be coming around again pretty soon," Bart remarked, finding
it impossible to escape a queer, uneasy feeling, anxious as he was to
see the specter, and determined as he was to effect its capture if it
again appeared.
As he said it, the sounds of those mysterious steps were again heard in
the corridor, and they heard the occupants of the office fling open the
door.
"You weren't walking in here?" Diamond demanded.
"Not on your life!" Bart answered.
"But we heard some one!"
"Of course you did, and so did we. And we heard it last night!"
Rattleton and Bruce came on through into Merriwell's room.
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