around the city for some days before the robbery.”
“Well,” said Applegate slowly, “if he says he hid the stuff in the old tower and it isn’t there, he must have meant the new tower, just as you say.”
“Will you let us search it?”
“I’ll do more than that. I’ll help you. I’m just as anxious to get the jewels and bonds back as anybody.”
“All nonsense!” declared Adelia Applegate. “It’s all a pack of falsehoods. I don’t believe a word of it.”
“Now, now, Adelia,” said her brother soothingly, “these boys may be right after all. It won’t hurt to take a look around, at any rate.”
“And much you’ll find, I’m sure! I declare, Hurd Applegate, you’re just as bad as those boys are.”
“Maybe, maybe,” he answered. “But I’m going to help them search the new tower, anyway.”
“Don’t ask me to brush the dust off your clothes when you come back, then. For that’s all you’ll get. Dust. Nothing more. The jewels and bonds are no more in the new tower than