"Hurrah!" cried the boys with a will.
"Ready Uncas!" called Don, raising his bugle, "the Scout salute!"
As the room rang with the noise Mr. Scott clapped his hands to his ears.
"Thanks," he said; "Mrs. Scott sent me up here to see if there was anything the matter, you were so quiet, but after that I think she will conclude that you are all right."
"What is that you have there, Rand?" he added as he caught sight of the coin that Rand had been using to toss up. "Where did you get it?"
"Those are the ones that we found in the road," replied Rand. "Do you know what they are?"
"Yes," answered Mr. Scott; "they are a political token issued in the time of Van Buren during the controversy over the currency. By the way, I shouldn't be surprised if these were some of the coins that were stolen out of Judge Taylor's office when it was broken into."
"Then the robbers must have gone away over that road," mused Rand, "and that is how they got there."
"That was doubtless the way of it," concluded Jack.
"Ay, but you thought there was some connection with them and Monkey
Rae," reminded Donald.