FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140  
141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   >>  
Saw there wasn't any time to loaf." "You saved my life," declared Frank. "The identity of the monster is solved, but the mystery of the island is as deep as ever." "Shust vot do I mean ven you said dot?" asked Hans. "Why should the hunchback rig himself up in that horrible manner and try to frighten persons away from the island?" "There is a mystery," confessed Diamond. "Certainly it is," nodded Merriwell. "Discovering the identity of the monster has not seemed to clear things up much. It has added to my curiosity." "Berhaps id peen a healthy thing to stayed avay dot islands from," observed Hans, sagely. "Whatever the secret of the island may be," said Frank, "those men are ready to commit murder in order to guard it." "They came near succeeding," said Hodge. "It looks as if they have succeeded." "Eh? How?" "You remember the story of the Boston man who was landed on the island and never seen afterward." "The cock-eyed man told that story." "Yes." "Perhaps that was a part of his plan to scare us away from the island--to keep us from going there." "Perhaps so; but you remember he told us there was a grave on the island and the headstone was marked, 'Sacred to the memory of Rawson Denning.'" "Yes. More of his plan to scare us away." "The grave is there." "What?" "Sure." "You--you----" "Found it. Bruce was with me. We came out into a dismal glade in the heart of the black woods, and there was the grave and the headstone with the words upon it." "Jingoes!" Hodge stared at Frank a few moments, and then asked: "Do you really believe the Boston man was murdered and buried in that grave?" "Rawson was the name he gave, and the grave was found on the island after his strange disappearance. It seems probable enough that he is planted there." "By Chorch!" exclaimed the Dutch boy, turning pale; "I don'd vant to monkey aroundt dot island all alone by yourself." "Do you have any idea what the mystery of the island can be, Merriwell?" asked Hodge, eagerly. "Of course I do not know any better than yourself, but I have a suspicion." "What do you think?" "Yaw!" cried Hans; "vat do I think?" "I believe some kind of unlawful business is carried on there, and for that reason the criminals are using every means to frighten away anybody who might prove troublesome or inquisitive." "Then will it pay us to be troublesome and inquisitive?" said Diamond. "That is the v
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140  
141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   >>  



Top keywords:
island
 

mystery

 

Perhaps

 

Diamond

 

Merriwell

 
remember
 
monster
 

headstone

 
frighten
 

Rawson


inquisitive

 

identity

 
troublesome
 

Boston

 
strange
 

murdered

 
buried
 
disappearance
 

dismal

 

Jingoes


stared

 

probable

 

moments

 

business

 

unlawful

 

carried

 

reason

 

suspicion

 

criminals

 

turning


planted

 
Chorch
 

exclaimed

 

monkey

 

aroundt

 
eagerly
 

landed

 
Certainly
 

nodded

 
Discovering

confessed
 

manner

 
persons
 
things
 

healthy

 

Berhaps

 
curiosity
 

horrible

 
declared
 

solved