"Not much!" came from Tom. "I'm no thief, and I don't propose to go to
jail."

"Boys, have you any idea how this jewelry got into your clothes?" asked
Captain Putnam.

"No, sir," came promptly from the three.

The rest of the Rover boys' clothing was then searched and a few more
cheap rings were brought to light.

"Now let us go for their baggage," said the constable, and this was
done, but nothing more was found.

It was soon buzzing around the battalion, which stood at parade rest,
that something was wrong, and then somebody whispered that the Rovers
were accused of breaking into a shop and stealing some jewelry.

"It can't be true," said Fred Garrison. "I shall never believe it." And
a number of others said the same. But a few shrugged their shoulders--
those who had belonged to the Lew Flapp and Dan Baxter crowd.

"I never trusted those Rovers altogether," said one. "They have too
much money to spend."

"Well, they are worth a good bit of money," replied another cadet.

"This ain't a quarter of the stuff I lost," said Aaron Fairchild, after
the baggage had undergone a rigid inspection.