on the street the following morning, hurrying a

?" asked Ja

w about the robbing of Judge T

. "I was just going around there to se

clues?" que

erhaps I can pick up some of both. You never can te

Rand. "I don't mind if I do. Wr

waves. Of course; did it last night. Want to see it? I was g

mean it,

the first page, double l

y and

y and

don't,

n mock surprise. "I thought you would

't want to be m

'll kill it if you say so, but

rather not be the victim. I wonder," he went

ho

Whild

ack. "If we do they will p

e to know how

ghtly. "A little cold water won't hurt her. Y

after a little pause, his thought turning on the

ing curious about

. "Maybe you can explai

laining," retorted Rand. "They go

the waves!"

you talk

ens, of course. What

as talking abou

id Rand. "How d

isn't anything to show how they got in or how they went out,

ible, isn't i

admitted Jack, "but I don'

they had

y? That don't lessen the puzzle. It was a Yale lock, and keys to them are

t the one they could ge

"It probably wouldn't be much

get in through a wi

locked on the inside

ust have been

see what they

y n

enough swag to make it wo

question

ng for plunder,

y well up in their sl

he newspaper business

d some years before. At the time of its erection there were no other buildings near it, and there were windows on all four sides. Some time later another building had been put on the adjoining lot, leaving a space of a little more than a foot between the two, thus making the windows on that

ound before we go ups

Rand. "I'm green at t

second story. By the side of the stairs was a narrow passage, through which Jack continued to a small hallway i

ome in through the cellar?" asked Ra

says that these doors were bolted, and I don't see h

a little difficul

the boys examined the

hout a ladder," decided Rand, after a study of the

esides there is an electric light right here, so that a ladder could be seen quite plainly from the street.

re isn't room enough for a man to get in there

ght," rem

t a boy's work,

replied Jack, "almost

y up to Judge Taylor's office, where they fou

ey entered. "We came in to see if ther

to say there isn't any. We are just as much in the dark as ever. It is beyond my comprehension

n it, the way they handled the safe," pointing to the large, old-fashioned safe, good enough in its

nk of it," remarked Ran

of a job for yeggmen, such as these must have been. They d

at make a good

oth to deaden the sound of the

t very much?

ed the judge, "some pa

, who had picked up a she

?" asked the jud

that?" asked Jack,

looking it over. "There seems to be

in the officer.

ike finger mar

cried Jack excitedly.

"some one has left the im

oo," went on Jack, "not

assented the judge, "bu

small man who made

l," agreed the

the officer, "but I don't

"his hand was dusty because h

he judge, "but we are still up against

ed?" asked Jack, going to one of the windows

think," answered

f the windows and looked out; then

y came in that way, do yo

pect to find, J

ntly, when he came to the third wi

e that out?" de

le the others have half an inch or so on them. It was rubbed off of this

ht!" exclaimed the judge, "but how in the

etween the walls," answered Ja

oy opened the doors and the others walked in as easily as if

uded the judge. "But why did they

ted to make it look like an inside job. Looks as if there were two or three men and a boy mixe

they came from arou

to pull off a job like that. Hello, what now?" as Jack, acting up

ust thought of something, I guess. He often

ment later, when Jack was heard bounding up

ioned the judge, when Jack ca

ge and a small steel cold chisel. "It just happened to strike me that they

Nice bit of work they are. It wasn't any burglar who made them. Now, if we

t in Wilson's blacksmith shop

e it, was it?" a

e," replied Rand, takin

together," demurred the officer, though he noted it

ch about the office failed to reveal any more clues, and the boys finally we

have cleared up part of the mystery, anyhow. You are so much better a detective than we are,"

ge," responded Jack, "just p