Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets

NED NEWTON turned back to the telephone, from which he had moved but a moment to answer his chum and employer, and to his father, on the other end of the wire, the young manager said:

"I'll be with you right away, Dad! They're not going to get by with anything like that-not in a thousand years! Don't let them bluff you. It's just a rotten bad mistake, that's all. I'll be right with you. What's that? Will Tom let me come? Well, say -- "