“Do you think he might have meant the new tower?” exclaimed Joe suddenly.

“Dad said he specified the old one.”

“But he may have been mistaken. In the darkness and everything, perhaps he didn’t know the difference.”

“That’s possible, too. It’s certain that he didn’t hide anything in this tower, at any rate. Although why he should say ‘the old tower’⁠—”

“Let’s ask Mr. Applegate if we can search the new tower, too.”

“What a fine chance we have! He’ll crow over us now in real earnest when we go back and tell him we didn’t find anything. He’ll say ‘I told you so,’ and if we try to get into the new tower he’ll just laugh at us.”

“It’s worth trying, anyway. We can tell him the whole story about Jackley. That ought to convince him.”