PREFACE
My Dear Boys:
Most unexpected things happen to newspaper reporters. That is one reason why, in spite of the hard work attached to the profession, so many bright young lads like it. It was that way with Larry Dexter. It was the unexpected that he was always looking for, and nearly always he found it.
In this, the fifth book of “The Young Reporter Series,” I have related for you something that happened when Larry unexpectedly went to a concert. Before he knew it he was involved in a mystery that had to do with a stolen boy.
How he promised the stricken mother to find her son for her, how he picked up slender clews and followed them, how, seemingly beaten and baffled, he still kept to the trail—all this I have set down for you in this book as well as I knew how.
I hope it is not presuming too much to say that I trust you will like this volume as well as you have my other books. Larry is a character to be proud of, and I have tried to do him justice.
Yours sincerely,
Howard R. Garis.