CHAPTER X
SOMETHING WRONG
"Bless my buttons!"cried Mr. Damon.
"Let's chase after him!" yelled Ned.
"Koku kin run de fastest ob any ob us," put in Eradicate. "Let him go."
"Hold on—wait a minute!" exclaimed Tom. "We want to know who that man is—and why we're going to chase after him. Koku, I guess it's up to you. Something has been going on here that I don't know anything about. Explain!"
"Well, it's no use to chase after him now," said Ned. "There he goes on his motor-cycle."
As he spoke the man, who, even from a rear view, presented all the characteristics of an army man, so straight was his carriage, leaped upon a motor-cycle that he pulled from the roadside bushes, and soon disappeared in a cloud of dust.
"No, he's gone," spoke Tom, half-regretfully. "But who was he, Koku? You seemed to know
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