But that theory was short-lived. When they reached 7 Dudley they found Tom and Alf just leaving the room to go to commons for supper.
“Say, Tom, did you burglarize our room this afternoon?” asked Dan.
“If I did I’ll bet I didn’t get much,” was the answer. “Why?”
“Didn’t you get the cup?”
“The cup? What cup are you talking about?”
“The hockey cup. Quit fooling, Tom. You took it, didn’t you?”
Tom saw by the earnest look on Dan’s face that that youth was not joking and so he answered seriously:
“I haven’t been near your room to-day, Dan. What’s up?”
“Why, Gerald says he brought the hockey cup home from Greenburg and put it on the table and left it there when he went to practice. It isn’t there now and we’ve searched high and low for it.”