"Everything.

It was Joe who first told the committee that Jack's model was a bought one and so lost him the fifty-dollar prize." "By cracky, that's right!" assented Rob, "and you think that Jack and his gang have carried him off in revenge for it ?" "Looks that way to me," nodded the stout youth.
"Why, they wouldn't dare," began Andy Bowles.
"Oh, yes, they would," amended Rob bitterly, "they'd dare anything to get even on us for their fancied wrongs.

But whose could have been the broken ragged shoes ?" he asked, suddenly taking up another train of thought.
"Hank Handcrafts, the beach-comber's," suggested Tubby.
"Gee Whillikens! I'll bet a cracker that's the solution," cried Andy, "and now I come to think of it I heard, before we left, that Jack and his gang had gone camping." "Where ?" "Up around the Upper Inlet somewhere.

You know that's full of islands and as there's no drinking water there few people ever think of frequenting the place.

If they wanted to do anything like carrying off Joe that is where they would have been likely to go." "You may be right, Andy.