“I was, but I’ve changed my mind. I want you to come with me now.”

Frank hailed a passing street car bound for the section of the city in which the Robinsons lived and they got on board. It was a long ride and the streets became poorer and meaner as they neared the outskirts of Bayport.

“It’s an outrage, that’s what it is!” declared Callie abruptly. “ Mrs. Robinson and the girls were always accustomed to having everything so nice! And now they have to live away out here! Oh, I hope your father catches the man that committed that robbery!”

Her eyes flashed and for a moment she looked so fierce that Frank laughed.

“I suppose you’d like to be the judge and jury at his trial, eh?” he chuckled.

“I’d give him a hundred years in jail!”