Jack joined him at the window.
"Now what's up, do you suppose?" asked Frank.
"Too deep for me," declared Jack, "but something surely. Let's go down and find out."
Hurriedly they slipped back into their clothes, and went down stairs. They stepped out of the hotel and mingled with the people on the streets, quite a crowd for Washington at that hour of the night.
The stream of people led toward Eleventh and Pennsylvania avenue, where a larger crowd was gathered in front of a bulletin board in the window of a newspaper office.
"Big news of some kind," said Jack as they hurried along.
"And not good news, either," Frank declared. "There'd be some cheering if it were."
"You're right," said Jack.
By main force they wormed their way through the crowd, until they were close enough to read the bulletin board. Then Jack uttered an exclamation of alarm.
"I knew it!" he cried.