 at ferrell's what he's about the same height as captain gardener i guess but a little huskier what color hair is he got herald about the same as mine i guess maybe a little lighter well i do you think you'll know i'm sure i just saw him a little over a week ago yeah i know i'm just kidding i bet you're glad you were taken off the restricted list before he got here aren't you oh gee you bet it's all my hero say it was swell that mrs gardener was able to find that little cottage for your dad so close to the school i mean uh-huh just think dad will be living right across from craig field or i can go to see him all the time every day during free period that is great hero oh you aren't going to live with him uh-huh nope in his last letter dad said he thought it was much better that i stayed right at the school of course we'll be seeing a lot of each other anyway oh yeah sure well here's the station oh this is all right kirk okay we can walk over from here sure see i just happen to think i wonder if your dad will be able to walk yet oh yeah he can walk but he'll still be using crutches i guess he said that he hoped he'd be awesome when he got here but maybe he wouldn't well come on the train ought to be here pretty soon thanks kirk okay i'll wait here all right gee i'm beginning to get a little shaky say this isn't any time to be getting that way i should say not herald just remember what a difference there is between this time and the last time we brought you down to the station yeah yeah that time we didn't even know that dad would would get better that's right now you're going to have him right here with you and ferroks for a long time so you want a candy bar or something while we're waiting do you herald oh i don't think so i don't think i could eat it well i don't think i want anything either thanks just the same hey i wasn't going to treat you fellas i just asked whether you wanted anything or not oh i get it big hearted phillips that's you hey look coming around the bend down there yeah that's it herald uh-huh gee uh what are you going to say to your dad herald cherry for the love of mine i'm sorry that's indeed this is a bigger train than the one you left on herald yeah it is see i wonder where they get the names for the pulmon cars hey there's a couple of men getting off down there herald you see your dad let me see uh no i don't he look at is that your dad there oh no he's not using crutches or even a cane wait i think yeah yeah it's dad dad dad here i am a guy linwells a swell looking man isn't he mm-hmm lee yeah isn't it great that he well that he came out of that crash as well as he did yeah it sure is oh look carol's bringing him over here oh what do we say don't say anything just say how do you do or something yeah i guess you're right it's kind of swell that he only has to use one crutch now isn't it i should say it is he walks pretty well so they brought me down here to oh dad these two boys are friends of mine they're swell kids dad and well well this is jerry dubin hello jerry hello guy i mean how do you do mr. linwell and uh this is jerry's roommate dad lee phillips hello to you too lee how do you do sir you know i think i'd have known you boys anywhere herald's told me so much about you in these letters that i feel we should be all be good friends already don't you yeah but there's one other member of this gang isn't that oh you must mean tubby yeah oh that's right tubby yeah but tubby couldn't come with us today he well he he got some demerits yeah tubby's always getting demerits well shall we get going i may sort of anxious to see pharaoh's military academy harrell you bet here's the station wagon over here dad is that all right all right it's perfect i can sit in that second seat there and stretch this old right leg of mine right out full length is uh welly is that the worst thing that happened to you mr. linwell jerry oh that's all right lee i don't mind talking about the crack up now it sort of relieves my mind once in a while yes jerry they thought at first i had a concussion of the brain that turned out to be gross exaggeration heavy eaters don't have brain well here we are dad uh dad this is kirk prentice kirk drives the station wagon and the bus and runs the power plant too how do you do mr. linwell hello kirk uh can we help you mr. linwell no no i can make it all right i can just get this old peg of mine there uh you're all right dad hey you bet i am son i'm all right okay get in the front seat jerry okay say do you want to ride back there with your father harrell uh huh is it all right dad all right you bet it is all in yep i'm all set all right here we go fair walks is a pretty little city isn't it well we think it is mr. linwell but you better not call it little in front of any of the people who live here no i guess you're right lee oh there's the city hall mr. linwell at tall building oh yes nice building hey lee do you think we could stop at max oh well who's max well his name is william mccloud mr. linwell he runs a little ice cream store right across the street from the front gate of ferro oh i see well can we stop for a few minutes i'd like to have a mac meet my dad well what do you think jerry well i don't know i i think we'd better go right to the school harrell uh captain gardener said he'd like to meet your dad just as soon as he got in okay you think i'd better go to this school before i go to the cottage do you jerry well captain gardener did say like to see you as soon as possible mr. linwell oh very well what about me oh he just wants to meet your father harrell i guess that's all uh don't you think that's it jerry huh oh sure yeah you bet there that's all i see uh there's max place right there dad oh yes see he's swell all the kids you like him he's scotch oh do you think i like him because he's scotch or in spite of well well well there's ferro's military academy yeah isn't it swell dad oh i should say it is of course i've seen pictures of it in the catalog but i never realized it was so large it is a big school one of the biggest in the country and the best as i know that i found out all about it before i sent her here here we are here let me help you mr. linwell oh i think i can manage all right how would you just take that stick and hand it to me when i get out all right dad there i'm sorry to be so much father we'll hope it won't be for long well welcome mr. linwell oh that's captain gardener dad oh thank you captain congratulations on coming out of that mess so quickly so well thanks captain i'm sort of tickled about it myself yes i can imagine well harold i'll bet you're glad to see your father here in ferrokes aren't you you bet uh i mean yes sir uh harold do you mind if i take your father away from you for a little while i'd like to talk with him uh no sir thank you harold well boys you just have time to get your rooms and pick your books up and make your fifth period class yes i guess that's fine prentice you can take the station wagon back to the garage i'll drive mr linwell over to scottage later yes sir well we'll be seeing you later i hope mr linwell no you'll bet you will leave and thanks very very much for coming with a train with harold you too jerry oh that's okay sir and uh you'd better run along son i'll see you later too oh harold uh i'm going to invite your father to have dinner this evening with mr. gardener myself would you like to join us oh i should say i would sir all right that's fine you come over to my office after your last period yes sir goodbye mr limon goodbye later come on lee harold yeah okay right away you have a fine boy there mr linwell yes i'm proud of him and i can't tell you how much ferrokes military academy has done for him and when i sent him here i was really somewhat afraid of his health before he came here he'd always been well not too well but he certainly looks at the picture of health now doesn't he should say he does we think we have a pretty well balanced program here at ferroke uh you must have to turn out such fine ladders jerry duke and lee phillips yes well shall we go inside the hall uh oh yes yes of course oh this is custer's hall isn't it that's right the administration building may i help you oh no thank you i think i can manage it's a little slow going just yet but it won't be long of course it won't there i didn't hear mr. linwell thanks here's my office right here say this is a fine looking building yes isn't it when you're able to get around a little easier we want you to see the whole school and i certainly want to as soon as i can sit down please thank you i'm sorry to have taken you away from your voice as soon mr. linwell oh that's all right did you want to tell me something about him studies or something no not about his studies harrell's a good student but uh well this is about harrell and also about you oh mr. linwell we may be making something a great deal more out of this than we should but well in view of the entire situation major davis and i thought it well that you should know our suspicions as soon as possible suspicions what sort of suspicions captain about a week ago jerry and lee took a little boat ride in my motorboat across to woodman's island a small island out in the middle of the lake yes i know well there's a small deserted cabin out there cabin that hasn't been occupied at least since ferrokes has been here the boys went out there with an old retired army captain there are corporal corporal dent he lives up the west shoreways oh i see jerry thought he saw smoke coming from the chimney of the cabin several times and when the three of them finally arrived there it was very evident there had been someone there quite recently well but i how well i i know you can't see just yet what all this has to do with you and harrell no frankly i don't it's just this mr. linwell in the cabin the boys and corporal dent found some newspapers newspapers yes they were newspapers from wardville town you pass through on the train about 250 miles beyond ferrokes yes and they were papers which had contained stories of your crash oh the papers still had the headlines at the top of the front page but the actual account of your crash had been cut out i see now uh of course major davis and i had read the original accounts in the ferrokes paper and we remembered that there was something said about a small white flag near the scene of the crash and uh some unexplained packages which had contained photograph film yes that's right and they haven't been able to explain it yet and the major and i knew too that it was a new government bomber you were testing well we put two and two together and we felt that the boys discovery in that old cabin might somehow affect you and harrell perhaps of course we're absolutely wrong but we wanted to be safe captain gardener i can't tell you how grateful i am to you when major davis for taking these precautions and for asking me to come here this is a great deal more serious than you can possibly imagine really yes i can't tell you anymore right now but this case is certainly not over yet it's just beginning i can say to you though that it's highly probable that if you hadn't taken the precaution to see that harrell remained within the bounds of the campus during the past week he might not be here today