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The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross

Chapter 4 THE MYSTERY MAN

Word Count: 1180    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

down the stranger on the icy street were as mysterious the nex

d boys, but Laura, naturally, saw her brother early. He was coming from h

se did Short and Long take you

e was altogether foolish

nd some trace of the ca

found a

n says. You are noncommunicative, Chetwood

Lance, or Short and Long--whether the fellow we sus

O

want to get

emanded his si

ho it is we suspect until we

as a regular detective! And supp

ill, of

ill you boy

om to dress, "they won't ask us because t

h!" shouted Laura after him

Morse met Lance Darby on

wful person who ran down the man last night? I hear from Dr. Agnew that they had to pat

by. "You see, nobody seemed to see t

ort and Long h

"We all agreed to say nothing about it unless w

ut' on your friends, Lance," decla

must know!" exclaime

boy with the youngest Long, Tommy, on the slippery hill of Nugent Street Tommy was so bundled up in a

she saw Tommy slipping all over the icy si

sea-legs on," gri

xclaimed Bobby teasingly. "Why, we have a little dog at home that isn't even a year o

r defensively. "That dog's got

huckled his brother. "H

ellow down on Market Street last night?" demanded

not going around snitching to th

t the hospital is

t car," said the boy, and evident

girl. "Are you boys trying t

w-

man at the h

n't hurt as ba

o you

ital to find out He's got a br

et?" demanded Bobb

n't know anybody--and n

ybe he will die! And you boys wil

ed Short and Long. "We know whe

lice know where to find

rgrew!" returned Short and Long,

nd Lance and Billy Long for being so secretive about the person they suspected of having caused the injury to the stran

n. The Red Cross girl had been makin

ough the doctors think he has no internal injuries after all, there is a compound fracture which will keep him in bed fo

ess Morse. "Do you mean

th a smile. "Or, at least, he cann

s about him that explain

rk on his clothing, either. But he was plentifully su

at funny bill he passed on Chet was brand n

net, wonderingly. "Is the ma

bill, which had given the first named so much trouble

all explained in

argrew. "But suppose poor Che

the bank to-morrow to see if they c

of the stranger." said Jess. "Why, he i

e fellow the boys think ran him do

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