“He’ll get up at midnight,” I said.

“What for?”

“He’s been coming to the brick house every night at midnight.”

“That’s so. I wonder why he waits till midnight to try the doors. Queer.”

“Everything he does is queer,” I returned.

Scoop nodded.

“Gennor must have been hard up for a spy to hire him.” [[141]]

We went to the tree where the rope was tied.

“Do you really believe,” I inquired, “that the money is hidden in the office?”

“I’d sooner think it’s there than in the stone wall.”