"Why, I read in the papers that it was stolen," said William Lang, simply. "It was taken the same night I went to the school to look at Professor Long's turtles. He didn't want me to see 'em, but I did all right. I got in when he wasn't there, and fooled him. He was so mysterious about 'em, that I thought he had a rare kind. But he didn't have at all. Anyway I saw 'em, and he doesn't know it, even to this day. I got in at the dead of night," and the man's voice sunk to a whisper, and his face took on a cunning look.