“All right!” grinned the boy, “anything to oblige,” and he went at the dresser with the leg of a chair!
The giant unlocked the door, stepped inside, and, taking Alex. by the ear, marched him out of the wrecked room. Once in the cabin he let go of the ear and walked toward the stern with a hand on the boy’s arm.
“You wasn’t so giddy the last time I saw you!” declared the boy.
The man laughed, opened the door of a large stateroom toward the stern, pushed the boy inside, and stepped in after him. This was a handsome room, elaborately furnished. Alex. dropped into a chair and looked about.
The steamer now seemed to be making fast time down the river, and Alex. looked out of a window in the hope of seeing the location of the Rambler.
“Say,” he finally asked, wrinkling his freckled nose at the man, “what is the answer to this? I give it up!”
“What was it you boys put in the deposit box at the bank?” asked the man.
“I didn’t put anything in; I didn’t go to any bank.”
“But your chum did. You met him at the bank entrance, and brought him back to look at me! You know what he put in the vault box. What was it?”
“It was a long package marked bonds,” was the boy’s reply.