lose no time in informing the police."

The senator was one of that class of busy men who eat breakfast
and read their morning newspaper at the same time. Having
listened to what Dick had to say, he unfolded his paper and
propped it up against a fruit dish before him.

"Excuse me, but I am in a hurry," he remarked apologetically. "I
want to catch a train for New York at eight-thirty-five, and --
hullo, what's this! Rush & Wilder, Brokers and Bankers, Robbed!
Thieves enter the office and loot the safe! This is news
certainly."

"Rush & Wilder!" cried Frank. "Is that the firm you do business
with?"

"Yes, Frank. They have lost over sixty-five thousand dollars,
besides a lot of unregistered bonds. That's a big loss."

"Will you suffer?"

"I don't know but what I shall. I'll have to let that trip to
New York go and look into this." And Senator Harrington settled
back to read the account of the robbery in full.

"They haven't any trace of the thieves, have they?" asked Tom.

"No. It says a rear window was broken open and the iron bars
unscrewed. The safe door was found closed but unlocked."