What was that way?"
"How long since these windows have been opened?" asked Jack, going
to one of the windows that looked on the wall of the next building.
"Not in years, I think," answered the judge. "Why?"
Without replying Jack opened one of the windows and looked out;
then going to a second he did the same.
"You don't think that they came in that way, do you?" questioned
the officer.
"What do you expect to find, Jack?" asked Rand.
"There you are!" he cried triumphantly, when he came to the third
window; "there is where they got in!"
"How do you make that out?" demanded the judge.
"See there!" replied Jack, "this window sill is almost free of dust,
while the others have half an inch or so on them. It was rubbed off
of this one by some one climbing through; see, there is the print
of a hand---"
"By the shade of Coke, I think you are right!" exclaimed the judge,
"but how in the world could any one get up to this window?"
"A boy might work his way up between the walls," answered Jack.
"Lots of boys could do it.
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