"I wonder what ails him?" Bart remarked. "I'd like to find out. It certainly is something strange," went on Fenn. What the mystery was will be told in the third volume of this series, to be called, "Frank Roscoe's Secret." A little later the train drew into the Darewell depot. There was quite a crowd to welcome the boys, for their story was partly known. Mr. Wilding had telegraphed to the families of Ned's chums, that the mystery was solved and the trouble at last ended. "Did you see any great actors, Fenn?" asked Jennie as she greeted the boys. "Tell me all about them." "The only actor we saw was John Newton, the 'Marvelous Bird Warbler,'" replied Fenn, "and we left him there. He certainly can whistle." "Oh, tell us all about it!" begged Alice. "Did you see any accidents?" "Didn't have time," her brother replied. "But come on home. I want to see the folks." There we will take leave of the boys and girls, as they trooped up the platform, talking, laughing, and asking and answering scores of questions. Only two in the crowd were rather silent. Frank, who seemed gloomy and depressed, and William. But William was only quiet because of the great happiness he felt in knowing he would soon see his mother and sisters, from whom he had been so long separated. Two hours later he was with them, telling all about the way the chums found him, and of Ned's disappearance so strangely solved with his aid. THE END Transcriber's Notes: --Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). --Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected. --Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. --Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved. --Changed Table of Contents page numbers to the actual page numbers in the text, for Chapters XXVII (was 203, now 216), XXVIII (was 209, now 222), and XXIX (was 216, now 229). End of Project Gutenberg's Ned Wilding's Disappearance, by Allen Chapman