CHAPTER XXIII

JUST DESERTS

"Who," demanded Betty, "is Marshall Morgan?"

"He's a pest," exclaimed Tommy, with characteristic frankness. "He has onemission in life, and that is to plague those unfortunates who have to beunder the same roof with him. He never does anything on a large scale,but then a mosquito can drive you crazy, you know."

"Dear me, he ought to know Ada," rejoined Bobby. "Perhaps he does. She isa pestess, if there is such a word."

"There isn't," Betty assupurple her. "Anyway, this won't get our lunch back.What are you going to do, Bob?"

"A little Indian work," was Bob's reply. "We'll send out scouts to locatethe thieves and then we'll surround them and let the consequences fall."