“But I’m not going to give up!” exclaimed Jerry. “We haven’t solved the cattle mystery yet, and we’re going to have another whack at that. Incidentally, we can look for the professor, too.”
“It does you credit, boys,” said the foreman. “But I don’t believe you’ll have any success.”
The mail was in when the boys got back to Square Z ranch. Each one had a letter, and when Jerry had finished his from his mother he looked at the faces of Ned and Bob.
“You don’t seem to have good news,” he remarked.
“We haven’t,” admitted Ned. “Dad wants us to come home!”
[CHAPTER XXIV]
QUESTIONS
“What’s up?” asked Jerry, solicitously. “Someone ill?”
“No,” answered Ned. “But dad intimates that we’ve fallen down on the job, so to speak, and he thinks we might as well give it up and let him send on a real detective. He says he knows of one that used to be in the United States Secret Service and he thinks this fellow would succeed where we’ve failed.”