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"Well, what do you think of that!" exclaimed Bart when he had finished reading the head-lines. "Isn't that the limit?"

"Limit! It's the strangest thing I ever heard of," cried Frank.

"Somebody has been stuffing the reporter," suggested Fenn. "Let's read the rest of it."

Looking over Bart's shoulders the two other lads read the account. It told in vivid language how the fact was discovered that the tower had been blown down by an explosive. Those nearest the tower when the crash came told of hearing a dull boom, that was not caused by the wind. Then came the sound as the bricks fell through the corner of the roof of the auditorium.

"But if other evidence was wanting," the article went on, "it is easily found in the dials of the clock that was in the tower. The white faces bear the black marks of powder and an analysis