"How did you find it out, then?" asked Bill, quickly.
"Not through him. He was watched, for we suspected him. What did he promise you?"
"Five hundred dollars apiece."
"Was that all?"
"It wasn't enough; but we should have got more out of him."
"Before you go away with your prisoners," said Jack to the policeman, "I wish to open the safe before you, to see if I am right in my suspicions. Mr. Talbot drew over ten thousand dollars from the bank to-day, and led us to think that he deposited it in the safe. I wish to ascertain, in the presence of witnesses, how much he placed there, and how much he carried away."
"Go ahead," said the oldest policeman.
The janitor proceeded to open the safe.
"Did we have the right combination?" asked Bill.