"Fifty thousand, only," growled Ferris, "and they probably will only pay a half.
They'll make us prove our loss in open court, and you know we don't care to haul out our books.

But the recovery goes really to old Hugh; he paid all the dues on Clayton's bond." They halted in a watchful silence at the fashionable apartment-house, and Ferris, calling the janitor as a witness, using his own keys, opened the vacant rooms.

At the door he paused to give a few sharp directions to the watchers, and so Jack Witherspoon stepped into the room first.

By a mere accident he felt a small object under his foot, and then quickly secured it in his hand, having carelessly dropped his hat.

He felt a little card-case in the hand which remained thrust idly in his pocket.
Together the two young men searched every corner of the double apartment.