"One of them is Ajax."
"Is it possible?" she exclaimed. "What a return for all the kindness you have shown to him and his!"
"Ajax! There, I was sure I heard Ajax's voice in the hall while the sheriff was here," cried Lulu. "He must have been the one who was down on his knees trying to break the safe lock when I peeped in at the crack. I didn't see his face; but the other was a white man."
"Yes," said Max; "a man we'd seen before."
"The tramp you saw when out riding?" asked his father.
"Yes, sir."
"I recognized him too," said Lulu. "Papa, what will be done with him and Ajax?"
"They will have to be tried for burglary and if convicted, will be sent to the penitentiary for a term of years."
"Papa, will we have to appear as witnesses on the trial?" asked Max.
"Yes."