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"I knocked him out, all right," observed the man who had reached through and dealt Tom the blow with the club. "Knocked him out! I should say you did, Featherton!" exclaimed one who appeared better dressed than the others. "Have you killed him?" "No; but I wish you wouldn't mention my name, Mr. Appleson. I I don't like " "Nonsense, Featherton. No one can hear us.
Morse followed them, pushing the motor-cycle, and carrying under one arm the bundle containing the valuable model, which he had detached. "I think this is the time we get ahead of Mr. Swift," murmured Morse, pulling his black mustache, when he and his companions had reached the car in the field. "We have just what we want now." "Yes, but we had hard enough work getting it," observed Appleson.
But I'm afraid you've done for the chap. I didn't want him harmed." "Oh, I guess Featherton knows how to do it, Appleson," commented the third man. "He's had experience that way, eh, Featherton?" "Yes, Mr. Morse; but if you please I wish you wouldn't mention " "All right, Featherton, I know what you mean," rejoined the man addressed as Morse. "Now let's see if we have drawn a blank or not.
"I hardly know. If it was Jake Burke, alias Happy Harry, and his crowd, including Appleson, Morse and Featherton, they're a bad lot. I wouldn't want father to know they were around, for he'd be sure to worry himself sick. He never really got over the time they attacked me, and got the patent away. Dad sure thought he was ruined then."
Appleson came back in it last night and saw some one looking in the window, but we thought it was only a farmer and chased him away. This morning the boat's gone. I thought maybe you had taken it for a joke." "Not a bit of it! Something's wrong!" exclaimed Happy Harry. "We'd better light out. I think the police are after us. That young Swift is too sharp for my liking. We'd better skip.
Tom was riding his motorcycle to Albany, to deliver his father's model of the turbine motor to a lawyer, in order to get a patent on it, when he was attacked by the gang of bad men. These included Ferguson Appleson, Anson Morse, Wilson Featherton, alias Simpson, Jake Burke, alias Happy Harry, who sometimes masqueraded as a tramp, and Tod Boreck, alias Murdock.
"Take him down the road a way and leave him. We can find some shed near a farmhouse where he and his machine will be out of sight until we get far enough away. Besides, I don't like to leave him so far from help, unconscious as he is." "Oh, you're getting chicken-hearted," said Appleson with a sneer. "However, have your way about it. I wonder what has become of Jake Burke?
"Only by luck we saw this lad come in here, or we would have had to chase all over for him, and maybe then we would have missed him. Hurry, Simpson I mean Featherton. It's getting late, and we've got lots to do." The chauffeur sprang to his seat, Appleson taking his place beside him.
They were the same four who had been involved in the former theft Appleson, Featherton, Morse and Burke. Were there five of them? He recalled the man who had been caught tampering with his boat the man who had tried to bid on the ARROW at the auction. Where was he? "Boreck didn't get what he was after," resumed Happy Harry, "and I'm going to spoil his game for him.
"Quick now, see if it's there," directed Morse, and Appleson hurried over to the machine. "Here it is!" he called. "I'll take it to our car, and we can get away." "Are you going to leave him here like this?" asked Morse. "Yes; why not?" "Because some one might have seen him come in here, and also remember that we, too, came in this direction." "What would you do?"
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