“Yes! Those were the names,” announced Schmouder easily. “He left the two nieces with my father and mother. They were nice girls!”
“Listen to that!” cried Ned, thumping Bob on the back. “News at last! We must tell Jerry this!”
CHAPTER XX
A QUEER QUESTION
So unexpected was the news given by the captured Boxwood Hall janitor that for a moment or two Ned and Bob could scarcely believe it. That the information, so much desired and so ardently sought after, should come to them by accident, while, doubtless, Professor Snodgrass was using every energy to that end, seemed scarcely believable. Yet there could be no doubt of it. Still Ned was a bit cautious, and restrained his stout chum from rushing to the hospital to tell Jerry.
“We don’t want any mistake in this,” remarked Ned. “Are you sure, Nick, that this is the same Professor Petersen whom we mean, the same one Professor Snodgrass means?”
“I don’t see how there can be any mistake,” declared the former janitor. “I often heard Professor Petersen speak of Professor Snodgrass, and I know him well enough. I could tell him in the dark.”