"
"And I promise I will."
With that Mary had to be content. A little later they joined
Ned and his friend, and soon they were moving swiftly down the
lake in the launch.
"Well, hasn't it done you good to take a day off?" Ned demanded
of his chum, when they were on their homeward way.
"Yes, I think it has," agreed Tom.
"You swung your thoughts into a new channel, didn't you?"
"Oh, yes, I found something new to think about," admitted the
young inventor, with a quick look at Mary.
But, though Tom thus passed off lightly the little incident of
the day, he gave it serious thought when he was alone.
"Those fellows were certainly talking about me," he reasoned.
"I wonder what for? And Feldman left the shop without my
knowledge. I'll have to look into that. I wonder if that Frenchy
looking chap I saw was the one who tried to pump Eradicate?
Another point to settle."
The last was easily disposed of, for, on reaching his shops
that afternoon, Tom cross-questioned the colored man, and
obtained a most accurate description of the odd foreigner. It
tallied in every detail with the man Tom had seen in the woods.
"And now about Feldman," mused Tom, as he went to the foreman
of the shop where the suspected man had been employed.
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