“I’ll say we have! Oh boy, won’t this surprise everybody?”

“ Now I’d like to see Dad tell us we’re not cut out to be detectives!”

“Wait till Adelia Applegate sees all her jewelry back again. She’ll change her opinion of us.”

“Wait till Hurd Applegate sees his bonds back. And wait till Chief Collig and Detective Smuff hear about it!”

So the Hardy boys gloated over their prospective return, but beneath it all they were thinking of what this discovery meant to the Robinsons.