“Are you sure it was him?” asked Jerry.
“As sure as I am that I’m talking to you now.”
“And are you just as positive that it was Noddy?”
“Even more so. Wasn’t I talking to him?”
“And he said he had fish bait in the square box?”
“He didn’t exactly say so, but he intimated as much.”
“If it was fish bait, why should he try to hide it, as you say he did?” asked Jerry.
“That’s what puzzles me,” replied Ned. “I only wish I had seen what Bill saw in the mill office when the light was burning.”
“Maybe Bill is the robber,” suggested Bob.
“I hardly think so,” was Ned’s opinion. “He may have had some connection with it, and may even have known about it. But, in my opinion the person who took the thousand dollars was the person who had the light in the office, and that wasn’t Bill.”