"It was a good idea, hiding in that locker," their father remarked. "It was a good idea and it worked out very well. There was only one thing wrong with it."
"What was that?" asked Frank.
"It was too dangerous."
"Too dangerous?"
"You took too many chances, dealing with a gang like that. Don't try anything like that again or I may have to hunt up my old shaving strop."
But Fenton Hardy smiled indulgently as he spoke.
"He wasn't real mad," whispered Joe, as he and his brother left their father. "He was only a little bit provoked."
"Well, it really was dangerous—hiding in that locker," admitted Frank. "Those thieves might have caught us like rats in a trap."
"I wonder if we'll have any more such thrilling adventures," mused Joe.
Additional thrilling adventures were still in store for the brothers, and what some of them were will be related in another volume, to be entitled, "The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Caves."