Stanhope went along, to see that he got all he desired.
"I am awfully glad you came," said Dora, in a low voice, when she was
alone with Dick and Tom. "I have something important to tell you,
something I didn't wish to mention in front of mamma, for it will only
worry her without doing any good."
"And what is it?" asked Tom and Dick, in a breath.
"I was down to Cedarville yesterday to do some shopping, and I am almost
certain that I saw Dan Baxter hanging around the hotel there."
"Dan Baxter!" ejaculated Dick.
"Hush, Dick! not so loud. Yes, Dan Baxter. He was on the hotel stoop,
but the minute he saw me he went inside."
"Perhaps you are mistaken," said Tom. "I hardly think he'd dare to show
himself here."
"At first I was uncertain about it. But when I came back that way I
looked again, and I caught him peeping out at me from one of the
bar-room windows. As soon as he saw me look he dodged out of sight."
"If Dan Baxter is in this neighborhood, he is here for no good," was
Dick's blunt comment. "Evidently he has not forgiven us for helping to
put his father back in jail.
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