XXIV THE POLICE DOG

XXV THE GOLD OF THE GODS






I

THE PERUVIAN DAGGER


"There's something weird and mysterious about the robbery,
Kennedy. They took the very thing I treasure most of all, an
ancient Peruvian dagger."

Professor Allan Norton was very much excited as he dropped into
Craig's laboratory early that forenoon.

Norton, I may say, was one of the younger members of the faculty,
like Kennedy. Already, however, he had made for himself a place as
one of the foremost of South American explorers and
archaeologists.

"How they got into the South American section of the Museum,
though, I don't understand," he hurried on. "But, once in, that
they should take the most valuable relic I brought back with me on
this last expedition, I think certainly shows that it was a