CHAPTER XIII
A Plan of Attack
Back in Bayport the boys discussed their visit to the house on the cliff from all angles.
None was satisfied with the explanation the red-headed man had given about the presence of the bloodstained cap in the house.
"I'm sure he knows more about it than he cares to tell," declared Frank.
"The other chap started to claim it at first, and then he stepped in with his story," Chet pointed out.
"That's the most suspicious part of it. And then, when I went into the kitchen in the first place, why should he have hidden the cap?"
"It's a mighty mysterious thing," Joe said. "The fact that dad has disappeared and the fact that there are bloodstains on that cap―"
"We ought to turn it over to Chief Collig," suggested Phil.
The boys looked at one another doubtfully. Chief of Police Collig was a fat, pompous official who had never been blessed by a super-
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