Mooney replied that he did not understand, and, without a further word, they pulled up where they could see into our boat. We did not know what they were about to do.
“We thought you might have a cargo of wet goods,” the constable said.
Mooney did not reply and the man added:
“You boys live down the river, don’t you?”
“Yes,” said Mooney.
And with that the conversation ended and the motor boat went on.
We drifted down the river until we were out of sight of the motor boat. Then we returned along the road to the town which we had passed. Here we got our dinner at a restaurant, and calmly, like any other passengers, walked over to the station and a train.
CHAPTER IV
The Secret Agent
Mooney’s experience with the last holdup made him consider a plan more daring than any former adventure.
When the men came to examine the packages which Mooney had taken out of the safe on the through express and which White had so skillfully carried away through the trick of the exchanged suit case, they found that what they had taken to be money was, in fact, bonds of an industrial corporation, being shipped by sealed express.