doing these things in your sleep. I take it for granted that you have told me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
"I have, sir, I have!"
"Then there is nothing to do but to investigate this as far as we can. Of course, I realize that it would cut you to have everybody in the school know of your sleep-walking habit."
"Yes, sir. But I shouldn't care, if only you could get back the stamps and the pins."
"Is Rasmer sure he saw Plum following Hamil ton on the river?" asked the doctor, turning to Dave.
"That is what he told Morr, Lawrence, and my self the day we stopped at his boathouse for a new oarlock."
"Then I must see him and have a talk with him," said the master of Oak Hall; and after a few words more the boys were dismissed.
On the following morning, Doctor Clay drove down to Ike Rasmer's place. The boatman was pleasant enough, but he remembered that Gus Plum was one of his customers, and when questioned closely, said he could not testify absolutely to the fact that it had been Plum who had followed Hamilton on the river.
"You see, my eyesight ain't of the best, doctor," said Rasmer, lamely. "I saw Hamilton full in the face, but the other feller had his face turned away
