CHAPTER IV
A QUEER SIGHT
Sammy's two chums looked strangely at him. He returned their gaze steadily.
"Well," he said, defiantly, "it's true! What makes you look at me that way?"
"Ha! Ha!" laughed Frank. "He's the same old Sammy, isn't he, Bob?"
"That's what he is! Always thinking he's going to find a treasure, and if he can't do that he trots out an old hermit. Go on, Sammy, can't you scare up a ghost while you're at it? The ghost of Pine Island! Go ahead, make up something about that."
Sammy Brown turned squarely about, and walked away from his chums without saying a word.
For a moment Frank and Bob looked after him, and then they looked at one another.
"There he goes," exclaimed Frank.
"And I guess he's mad, too," added Bob.
"But I didn't mean anything."
"Neither did I!"
"Let's call him back."
"Let's go after him!"
Thus Bob and Frank spoke, one after the other. Then Bob cried:
"I say, Sammy! Come on back! Wait a minute. We didn't mean anything."
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