PREFACE
My Dear Boys:
It is some time since I wrote for you the previous stories about Larry Dexter, and how the young reporter made his successful search for the millionaire. Now I have the privilege of once more relating to you some of his doings.
You know that a reporter’s life is full of surprises. One day he may be at a ball game, and the next he may be sent to “cover” a war in China, or to get a story of the work on the Panama Canal.
It was this way with Larry Dexter. One morning he came to the office, after having had some trouble in the subway with a young man, to find his city editor waiting for him with an assignment to solve a million-dollar bank robbery.
Needless to say, Larry at once “got busy.” He managed to get the story of the big theft, and then he went on the trail of the man he thoughthad the money. How he traced him, how he worked up the various clews, his troubles, his disappointments, and the big surprise that awaited him—all this you will find told of in this book.
I hope you will like the story as well as you have the other ones I have written for you, and I trust that you will be glad to hear more of Larry Dexter in another book to follow this one.
Yours very truly,Raymond Sperry.