t."

"Keep away from the bank? What bank? The river or the ravine?"

"No, stupid! The bank in the town. The one that was robbed. Are you so
stupid you can't put two and two together? That's Sheldon's room where
the lights came from. He was warning his father to keep away from the
bank on account of danger. Don't you see? He is not the fine honorable
fellow he makes himself out to be."

"H'm! that gives us another hold on him. If he puts on any airs with us
now we'll spit upon him."

"Sh! not so loud. We've got to get in without being found out. It is not
late but it's after hours and a half minute or a half hour over time is
all the same with the doctor."

"It's a good thing we were late, Pete. Otherwise, we wouldn't have seen
this high-toned burglar's son signaling to----"

"No, but keep still," whispered Herring and the two hurried on in the
darkness till they reached the rear of the building where an associate
was waiting to let them in at their signal.

Jack went to sleep feeling assured that if the bank robbers made another
attempt to rob the Riverton institution they would meet with a warm
reception and satisfied that he had done his duty.

In the morning when Bucephalus came with the mail he quite astonished
the boys by announcing:

"Dem robbers was at deir wo'k again las' night, down at de bank on de
river an' one of dem was shooted bad an' am in jail, so dey tell me down
at de station."

"Tried to rob the bank again, did they?" cried one or two of the boys
excitedly.

"Yas'r, but the bank kind o' suspected dat dey was coming and was
prepared for them. The robbers did not suspicion that anything was
wrong for the bank was playing 'possum and the robbers was caught at
their surreptitious employment and----"

"Which one got away and how many were there, Buck?" asked Herring, who
seemed puzzled over something.

"Ah donno sah, Ah don' keep acco'nt of such obnoxious individuals as
bank robbers, sah," replied Bucephalus, with great dignity.

"Was the fellow with the white mustache caught?"

"Ah donno, sah, and----"

"What is it to you which one was caught and how do you happen to know so
much about them, Herring?" asked Harry.

"It is not much to me, of course," returned Herring, "although I fancy
it is a lot to somebody not a hundred miles away."

"What do you mean by that?" demanded Harry. "You are hinting at
something. Out with it if you are man enough."

Herring flushed scarlet and then, f