"Time's up, boys," the physician said, with a genial smile. "This
young patient of mine can't have company very long at a time just
at present. It will be all right though to drop in some other time,
if Miss Berwick so desires."

"Indeed I do," said the young girl, as the boys, in compliance with
the doctor's suggestion, arose to go.

"And we surely will be glad to come," responded Bob for himself
and his friend. "We are keen to hear the rest of that story."

They said good-bye and went downstairs and out into the street.

"Why didn't the doctor wait just five minutes more?" grumbled Joe.
"He couldn't have picked out a worse minute to butt in. I'm just
crazy to know how the thing came out."

"So am I," agreed Bob. "But I've heard enough already to feel sure
that that fellow Cassey is a double-dyed crook. He simply saw that he
had an inexperienced girl to deal with and he made the most of it."

"I'd like to punch his nose for him," growled Joe savagely, making
a swing in the air at an imaginary opponent.

"Same here," agreed Bob, "but that wouldn't get back her four
thousand. To think of a man turning a trick like that at the expense
of a young girl who had just lost her father! It doesn't seem as
though there could be such a mean fellow in the world!"

"Well, however it may seem, there is evidently one who is mean