turned away from them and walked off down the street.
"Gosh, but I'm sorry for him," said Frank as they went home. "He was such a hard worker in school and he counted so much on going to college."
"We've just got to clear up the Tower robbery, that's all there is to it!" declared his brother.
"Perhaps dad is back by now. There's a train from New York at three o'clock. Let's hurry home and see."
But when the Hardy boys arrived home they found that their father had not yet returned from the city.
"We'll just have to be patient, I guess," said Frank. "No news is good news."
And with this philosophic reflection the Hardy boys were obliged to comfort themselves against the impatience that possessed them to learn what progress their father was making in the city toward following up the clues they had given him.
