“What shall we do now?” asked Joe.

“I don’t know. Dad sure took the wind out of our sails that time, didn’t he?”

“I’ll say he did. But it was just as well. Saved us a lot of trouble.”

“We might have been going around to all the pawnshops in the city and not getting anywhere.”

“Looks as if Dad has the inside track on the case, anyway. If any of the jewels are turned in he will be the first to hear of it. What chance have we?”

“I’m hanged if I’ll give up!” declared Frank, with determination. “We know that there was a strange man hanging around Tower Mansion and we know that there was a redheaded crook in town. Perhaps those two facts aren’t connected, but I think they are. And we know he stole Chet’s roadster.”

“And left it in the woods.”