The Tower Treasure Quotes
"Why shouldn't we? Isn't he one of the most famous detectives in the country? And aren't we his sons? If the profession was good enough for him to follow it should be good enough for us."
"But we suggested something that led to a clue, didn't we? That's as much a part of detective work as anything else."
"What a fine lawyer either of us would make!" sniffed Joe. "Or a doctor, either! We were both cut out to be detectives and Dad knows it."
"Once we get out of school he'll probably give his permission. Why, this is a good sign right now, isn't it? He asked us to deliver these papers for him in Willowville. He's letting us help him."
"Never mind, Frank," comforted his brother. "We may get a mystery all of our own to solve someday."
"If we do we'll show that Fenton Hardy's sons are worthy of his name."
"He must be crazy!" Frank exclaimed angrily. "Why, he might have pushed us both right over the embankment!"
"If we ever catch up to him I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!" declared Frank.
"You're just in time," replied Chet hurriedly. "You didn't meet a fellow driving my roadster, did you?"
"He ran right over my parcel!" Just then Callie spied Chet Morton, and she pouted at him. "He was a friend of yours, too, Chet Morton, for he was driving your car!"
"You must train yourselves to be observant, so that in time you will automatically remember little details about people you meet and places you've visited."
"The safe in the Applegate library was opened. The loss will be about forty thousand dollars, I believe."
"I don’t really need a detective in this case," snapped Hurd Applegate. "Don’t need one at all. It’s as clear as the nose on your face. I know who took the stuff. But I can’t prove it."
"What makes you suspect Robinson?" asked Mr. Hardy of Hurd Applegate.
"Don’t worry, son," he said. "It’ll be all right."
"Everybody knows your father is honest," said Joe consolingly. "He has a good record—even Applegate will have to admit that."
"I didn’t do it. I tell you I didn’t take that money."
"I got the money honestly—that’s all I can say about it."
"I’m positive Henry Robinson is innocent," said Frank to his brother.
"Of course he’s innocent," agreed Frank. "He’ll be able to clear himself all right, Perry."
"Brace up, old chap," he advised. "It looks pretty bad just now, but your father will be able to clear himself, never fear."
"Gosh, you may be right, at that!" exclaimed Perry.
"I guess Dad will think we aren’t such poor detectives after all," Joe exulted.
"It’s no use," he said. "Father can’t keep me in school any longer and it’s up to me to pitch in and help the family."
"You’ll make good at whatever you tackle," Joe assured him.
"Of course not. Nobody but Hurd Applegate. But until they find who did take the stuff, Mr. Robinson is out of a job and nobody will hire him."
"If it is cleared up, all well and good. If it isn’t—we won’t starve, at any rate, and papa knows we all believe in him."
"The great detective became moody and worried."
"Promise me one thing. Let me know as soon as your father returns—if he has any news."
"I did find out something about the red wig. But as for connecting its wearer with the Tower robbery—that is still to come."
"You may as well put back the notebook, Smuff."
"We won’t find anything in the old tower. Go ahead, live and learn. Waste your time."
"Whoa! Whoa! Not all at once. A question at a time please."
"Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched."
"There is many a slip between the cup and the lip."
"I know it looks bad for Robinson, but I don’t think it would hurt to give the towers another thorough search."
"I’ll believe that after I’ve searched the towers inside and out."
"The chief says that’s all a blind. Jackley did it to protect Robinson. They were both working together."
"I can’t understand it, I could have sworn that Jackley was in earnest when he made that confession."
"If it hadn’t been for you we wouldn’t even have Jackley’s story to go on."
"The worst of it is that the case looks pretty bad against Mr. Robinson."
"Many an innocent man has been convicted on less evidence."
"A detective is not a miracle man, my boy, he is only a man who is trained in tracing criminals."
"The discovery of the Tower Mansion treasure was a Bayport sensation for almost a week."