"We can have corking times!" Ned went on. "I've never been there. It's great, according to what you read about it."

"We couldn't have much more excitement than we did right here the last few weeks," remarked Fenn.

But whether the boys did or not can be learned in the second volume of this series, which will be ent.i.tled: "Ned Wilding's Disappearance."

"I wish it was time to go now," Ned went on as he put the letter in his pocket.

"Have to wait, that's all," said Bart. "By the way, what ever became of John Newton, who used to work here as a messenger?"

"Didn't you hear?" asked Fenn.

"No. Did he get to be a.s.sistant postmaster?"

"Went to New York last week," Fenn added, for John lived near him. "Said he was going to be an actor or get some sort of a job on the stage.

Wouldn't wonder but what he went in some variety show. He could imitate birds better than any one I ever heard."

"Maybe we'll see him when we go to New York," suggested Bart.

There, as they discussed the possibilities of their trip, which was destined to be much more surprising than any of them supposed, we will take leave of them.

THE END