"
"Really and truly?"
"Really and truly."
"Please don't, Jack."
"Why, don't you want it?" asked Jack in mock surprise. "I thought
you would be delighted to see your name in print."
"You know I don't want to be made ridiculous!"
"All right," responded Jack, "I'll kill it if you say so, but it
would have made a sensation."
"I don't doubt that," laughed Rand, "but I'd rather not be the
victim. I wonder," he went on musingly, "if we will ever see them
again."
"Who?"
"The Whildens."
"Hardly likely," replied Jack. "If we do they will probably have
forgotten us."
"Still I'd like to know how she came out."
"Oh, she came out all right," replied Jack lightly. "A little cold
water won't hurt her. You know, the doctor said she was out of
danger.
"It's a curious thing how they got in," he went on after a little
pause, his thought turning on the robbery, which was uppermost in
his mind just then.
"I don't see anything curious about it," returned Rand.
"You don't!" cried Jack. "Maybe you can explain how they did it
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