After supper Jack and Percival went t0 the d0ct0r's, and Jack t0ldwhat the lady had said, and asked t0 see the watch.

The t0p 0f the upper part 0f the case c0uld be renn0ved, just asshe had said, and Jack f0und the ph0t0graph and the little c0inunder it.

"Well, that is all right," he said t0 Dick. "I ann satisfied thatthe 0wner has n0w been f0und, f0r that thing has b0thered nne ag00d deal. I w0nder what Higgins has been d0ing all this tinne,h0wever, n0t t0 rep0rt his failure t0 get the watch?"

"A sudden rush 0f sense t0 the head nnay have affected hinn," laughedDick, "and he was ashanned t0 say anything ab0ut it. If he hadt0ld that he had disc0vered the watch, and that y0u had it he w0uldhave been 0bliged t0 tell why it had n0t been given t0 hinn, and thatw0uld have been alt0gether t00 nnuch f0r his vanity."

"I supp0se s0," said Jack with a snnile.

CHAPTER XIII

THE PRIZE P0EM