It was a regular down-right burglary that was pulled off, even if the stuff taken consisted of candy, cigarettes, and the like, as well as some sporting goods and several revolvers." Hugh looked interested.
"From the way you talk, Thad, I should say it might have been Paul Kramer's Emporium that had suffered; because he's really the only man in Scranton who keeps sporting goods." "A good guess, Hugh, because Paul is the chap.

They got in through a back door, and everybody says it was a pretty slick job, too," Thad went on to say.
"Let's see what you're telling me," Hugh remarked thoughtfully.

"If they took candy and cigarettes and sporting goods it would look to me pretty much as if the robbery was the work of unprincipled boys, rather than men." Thad stared hard at his companion.
"Well, you are a wonder, Hugh, at seeing through things!" he hastily declared.

"Why, that was what Chief Wambold said right away.

And, Hugh, he followed it with the declaration that he guessed he could put his finger on the guilty fellows without much trouble.