The sight was enough to upset even Frank's well-established patience, and he exclaimed, "If I had the rascals that did this mischief, I could pay them for it, without troubling my conscience much." "You must tell Lee Powell, the next time you see him," said Julia, who had followed him, "that he ought not to--" "Lee didn't do it," said Frank.
"What makes you think so ?" "See here," said Frank, bending over a footprint in the soft earth; "the Hillers all go bare-foot, and these fellows wore boots.

I know who did it, as well as if I had seen them.

It was the work of Charles Morgan and a few of his particular friends.

They must have been very still about it, for Brave didn't hear them." "I don't see what object they had in doing it," said Julia.
"I know what they did it for," said Frank; "and if I ever catch--But," he added, checking himself, "there's no use in grumbling about it; no amount of fretting will repair the damage." So saying, he led the way toward the house.
It did not take him long to don his working-suit, and, shouldering his hoe, he returned to the strawberry-bed, and, in less than an hour, the plants were all in the ground again..