"Found something more?" questioned the judge, when Jack came into the room with a rush.
"Found these between the buildings," replied Jack, showing a thin steel wedge and a small steel cold chisel. "It just happened to strike me that they might have forgotten something, so I took a look around and I found these."
"Some of the tools they used on the safe," said the officer, taking them. "Nice bit of work they are. It wasn't any burglar who made them. Now, if we could find where they were made we might get on the track of these fellows."
"Why, I saw one just like that in Wilson's blacksmith shop the other day," observed Rand.
"Wasn't just like it, was it?" asked the officer.
"Looks like the same one," replied Rand, taking the chisel in his hand.
"Guess they wouldn't look so much alike if they were together," demurred the officer, though he noted it down with the thought, "That's clue worth following."
"See if you can find anything else," suggested the judge, but a careful search about the office failed to reveal any more clues, and the boys finally went off to see, as Jack expressed it, what they could pick up on the outside.
"Come in again, Jack," said the judge when the boys were leaving, "always glad to see you. You have cleared up part of the mystery, anyhow. You are so much better a detective than we are," he added laughingly, "that I don't know but what we shall have to put the case in your hands."
"Oh, it wasn't anything, judge," responded Jack, "just putting two and two together."