Yet Len admits he's stumped.

All the while the merchants are fearing that the burglar will bring about bigger losses.

Dick Prescott, if you could catch that burglar, and see him sent off where he belongs, you'd be doing a vastly greater service to the community than you possibly could by helping the country prepare for a war that is thirty or forty years away." "I wouldn't mind having a crack at the burglar scare, either," laughed Dick.

"But the question is, how am I going to go about it to catch the fellow?
He has baffled all the police, and even Len Spencer.

What show have I for finding the rascal ?" "Just the same, Dick, I believe you would catch him, if you'd set your mind and your energies to it.