"By George! So they are!"
"Say!" said the red-faced man, leaning over the back of the seat. "I saw the man who took those valises, but I supposed he was a member of your party and that you had sent him for them; therefore I did not stop him."
"What sort of a looking man was he?"
"He was a very genteel fellow, but I noticed that he toed in, and that he had a very German cast of countenance."
"I wonder if it was Claus?" said Julian.
"I don't know what his name was, but he got the valises. Say! If I were you I would search the train, and if you find him you can make him give your property up."
"We will do it. I wonder if we are ever going to see the last of that man?"
The train had been gathering headway all the while, and was now running at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. If Claus, or whoever stole the valises, was on the train, the boys were certain he could not jump off to escape them.