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Rh them if you can! I must get those jewels back! I'll give a big reward for their safe return."

"Have you heard from Phil or Roger yet?"

"No, Dave."

"They may bring in some word."

"Let us hope so," groaned the manufacturer.

"What became of the watchman?"

"That is a mystery. Perhaps they carried him off and threw him into the river, or something like that!"

"Oh, they wouldn't be as rascally as all that!" returned Dave, in horror.

"Perhaps. Some robbers are very desperate characters."

At that moment came a cry from one of the workrooms, where one of the officers had gone to take a look around.

"What is it, Carr?" called the chief of police.

"Here's poor Tony Wells," was the answer. "He's in bad shape. Better somebody run for a doctor at once!"