"And the other?"
"That I got to-night, and oh, Mr. Brady, I have had the time of my life to keep it out of the hands of those Chinamen."
"But where is it now?" demanded the old detective impatiently.
"I tied it to the lowest rung of that ladder under the water," said Ed.
"Go for it!" cried the old detective. "Don't keep us any longer in suspense."
Ed instantly took a header into the water.
Ed's head came popping up in a minute.
He raised a hand out of the water and it held a square tin case, with a rope attached.
"It's the duplicate of the one I fetched up last night," he said. "I don't know what's in it, I'm sure."
"Bring it up here and we'll soon find out," called Old King Brady.