“Everybody suspects everybody else,” admitted Griff. “Dad suspects Barney, Barney suspects me, I suspect the supply clerk and the bookkeeper of working together to get cheaper supplies here, and they suspect each other and everybody else—even you three!”
“Well,” Bob waved the statement aside, “that isn’t getting down to brass tacks. Think, for five minutes, everybody. We’ve got to help Griff!”
Seeing their case destroyed, their chief suspect cleared, they turned loyally to help to retrieve themselves by aiding him.
For five minutes no one spoke.
CHAPTER XXII
THE “MYSTERY CRATE”
“Father ordered us to drop this part of things,” said Al finally, “but I’m glad we disobeyed if it helps Griff to get out of trouble.”
“So am I,” admitted Bob. “But that isn’t what we were quiet for, to talk about what we’ve done.”
“We want to know what to do!” Curt commented.
“That’s what I was coming to,” defended Al. “Let Griff stay here with you, Bob, while Curt and I ride out to The Windsock. We can call up as soon as we arrive, and then wait outside, hiding. Then Griff can take this money and come out, and pay it, and then we will jump in from outside the door and grab it and jump through the window and——”
“Is that the best you can do?” scoffed Curt. Al grinned.