"What evidence
have you that I did these things that you charge me with doing?"
"I have not charged you with them, Herring. I am merely asking you
a few questions. I have circumstantial evidence, however, that you
did these things."
"Circumstantial evidence has hanged innocent men before now," said
the bully. "Haven't you any corroborative evidence?"
He was beginning to grow defiant now, feeling that the doctor had no
real evidence against him.
"Don't you think that a trip to some more lively spot for the rest of
the summer would be advisable, Herring?" the doctor suddenly asked,
looking quizzically at him. "Better for all concerned, perhaps?
You don't altogether like this camp life, do you, Herring?"
"Oh, I am satisfied with it," said Herring, putting on an air of
braggadocio, seeing that the doctor was giving him a loophole by
which to get out. "I don't see that I need---" but then he
stopped, seeing a look in the doctor's face like a danger signal.
"You think on the whole that it might be as well to go somewhere
else for a few weeks?"
The doctor got up, and Herring took the hint and went out, saying
nothing further upon the subject.
By the time Percival and the others had returned he was packing up,
and when Jack and Dick came back from Riverton he had gone, and
Merritt and one or two others had gone with him.
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