“I’m positive,” declared Harrity. “I was face to face with him. He was a dark-haired man, and his hair was cut awful short. I noticed that.”

“You’re sure he wasn’t redheaded?”

“I’m sure of it.”

“What’s all this about?” asked Chief Collig suspiciously. “What has the color of his hair to do with it?”

“Well,” admitted Frank, “we were pretty sure that the man who stole Chet’s car had long, red hair.”

“Hum!” muttered the chief doubtfully. “Then if that was the case, the man who stole the car and the man who tried to hold up the office isn’t one and the same fellow after all.”

“I don’t know what to make of it,” confessed Frank.