"
"I guess you have hit it," assented the officer. "Then the boy opened
the doors and the others walked in as easily as if they owned the
place. A man with one eye could see it now."
"And went out the same way," concluded the judge. "But why did they
need to make such a mystery of it?"
"Wanted to give us something to think about, I guess," hazarded the
officer. "Perhaps they wanted to make it look like an inside job.
Looks as if there were two or three men and a boy mixed up in it.
That's a due, anyway, and I will send word around the country to
look out for them."
"Do you think that they came from around here?" asked Rand.
"Don't think so. I don't think we have any one here smart enough
to pull off a job like that. Hello, what now?" as Jack, acting upon
a sudden thought, rushed from the room. "What is he after now?"
"I don't know, I'm sure," answered Rand. "Just thought of something,
I guess. He often does that when he has an idea strike him."
"Here he comes back," said the officer a moment later, when Jack
was heard bounding up the stairs.
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