“So you think it’s time, eh?” asked the reporter. “I’ll come right over.”
Mr. Newton joined Larry half an hour later, and the pair went to the boy’s room, above where the strange men had been working for some time.
“Are they downstairs?” whispered Mr. Newton.
“Yes,” said Larry, “and the detectives are hidden in a room across the hall. I guess they’ll break in any minute now. We can hear them through the crack. I have made it bigger so we can see well.”
Larry and the reporter knelt down and applied their eyes to the hole in the floor. They could observe the men moving about, and could see the golden glow that filled the apartment.
Suddenly, as they watched, they heard the sound of crashing wood.
“They are breaking in the door!” exclaimed Larry. “The detectives are after them!”
CHAPTER XXV
A BIG ROBBERY
“Now for some fun!” exclaimed Mr. Newton. “Those detectives will get the biggest surprise of their lives.”