Part 13 (2/2)
Looks as if there were two or three men and a boy mixed up in it
That's a due, anyway, and I will send word around the country to look out for them”
”Do you think that they came from around here?” asked Rand
”Don't think so I don't think we have any one here sh to pull off a job like that hello, what now?” as Jack, acting upon a sudden thought, rushed from the room ”What is he after now?”
”I don't know, I'uess He often does that when he has an idea strike him”
”Here he comes back,” said the officer aup the stairs ”I wonder what he has got now?”
”Found soe, when Jack came into the roos,” replied Jack, showing a thin steel wedge and a small steel cold chisel ”It just happened to strike , so I took a look around and I found these”
”Some of the tools they used on the safe,” said the officer, taking thelar who ht get on the track of these fellows”
”Why, I saw one just like that in Wilson's blacksmith shop the other day,” observed Rand
”Wasn't just like it, was it?” asked the officer
”Looks like the sa the chisel in his hand
”Guess they wouldn't look so ether,”
deht, ”That's clue worth following”
”See if you can find anything else,” suggested the judge, but a careful search about the office failed to reveal any more clues, and the boys finally went off to see, as Jack expressed it, what they could pick up on the outside
”Co, ”always glad to see you You have cleared up part of the mystery, anyhow You are so ly, ”that I don't know but e shall have to put the case in your hands”
”Oh, it wasn't anything, judge,” responded Jack, ”just putting two and two together”
CHAPTER XI
FORMING THE PATROL
”Don't you think,” began Pepper
”Why not, Pepper?” asked Rand
”What objection is there to our thinking?”
The four boys were, a couple of days later, on their way back to the town fro swim