Then she and Teddy, taking turns, told what had happened. Mrs. Martin
scolded Trouble a little, to make him more careful the next time. Then
Grandpa Martin said:
"Well, there must be strangers on this island after all, though I
could not find them. They must be hiding somewhere, and I'd like to
know what for."
"Maybe they're living in gypsy wagons," suggested Jan.
"Or in a cave," added Ted. "They look as if they lived in a cave."
"There isn't any cave on the island, as far as I know," his
grandfather told Ted. "But I don't like those strange men roaming
about our place here. They may not do any harm, but I don't like it.
I'll have another look for them."
"So will I," added Teddy, but he did not say this aloud. Teddy had
made up his mind to do something. He was going to look for those men
himself, either in a cave or a gypsy wagon. Ted wanted to find the
ragged man--find all of them if more than one; and there seemed to be
at least two, for the one who had pulled Teddy out of the spring had
spoken of another--a "professor."
"What's a professor?" asked Jan.
"Oh, it's a man or a woman who has studied his lessons and teaches
them to others," answered her mother. "One who knows a great deal
about something, such as about the stars or about the world we live
in. Professors find out many things and then tell others--young people
generally--about them.
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