The boy said Flapp
vowed he was going to get square with the Rovers for what they had
done."
"What boy was that?" asked Josiah Cotton, with interest.
The boy was described and, a little later, he was brought over from the
hotel. He was very much frightened and insisted upon it that he had had
nothing to do with the robbery.
"Tell what you can about Lew Flapp," said Dick, and the boy did so.
"That young fellow had been drinking, or else he wouldn't have talked
so much," added the lad. "He certainly said he was going to get square
with the Rover brothers."
"Have you seen him since?"
"Yes, I saw him in the village right after the cadets left."
"Anywhere near Mr. Fairchild's shop?"
"On the road that runs back of the shop."
"Where was he going?"
"I don't know."
"And that is the last you saw of him?"
"Yes, sir."
"You don't know if he went towards the back of the shop?"
"No, sir."
More than this the boy could not tell and he was excused. Squire
Haggerty shook his head in perplexity.
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