Fire Fighters: Mr. Darby Locked in Vault

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In a minute, we'll join Fire Chief Bob Cody in his private office in Headquarter Station, where he sits staring in amazement at his young friend, Jimmy Collins. Jimmy has just declared that he knows the answer to a mystery that started when the junior firefighters began storing the antiques they're collecting for their sale in the station house below.

The reason the art dealer, Lucius P. Darby, had tried to hide his interest in the old snuff boxes now clear. He didn't want Jimmy to find out it was a priceless art object, a museum piece. But the answer comes a bit too late, but the snuff box itself seems to have vanished into thin air.

To see what really had happened, well, we'll get together again right after this message. Oh, firefighters! Let's get up to Chief Cody's office on the second floor of the fire station and get to the bottom of this mystery. Earlier this evening, Jimmy's sister Trudy had found a picture of the missing snuff box in a book on rare antiques. It was a valuable collector's

item missing for many years. That isn't until it turned up among the things donated for the junior firefighter sale. And now, it's gone again. And Jimmy is telling the Chief. I'm sure that Antique dealer, Mr. Darby, is behind this somehow, sir.

I wonder. He couldn't have hidden it here, we searched. I know, and he couldn't have taken it with him, because he made a point of showing me he had nothing in his pockets. Still, if I had known how valuable it was, I had to ask him a few questions.