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They had usurped the use of the cabin and had lived there nearly a week in hiding, leaving just before the first visit of Tom and Jackson. The rifled wallet had been dropped by accident. And it did not take much delving to disclose the fact that, Lydane, "Gold Tooth," as he was called, and his crony, were spies in the pay of the Universal Flying Machine Company.
"Now, the less we discuss this matter the better!" interrupted Tom. "Lydane, as you call the man with the gold tooth didn't really do anything to me nor any great harm to any of my possessions, as far as I can learn. His career is a closed book a book with muddy covers!" and the young inventor laughed. "Oh, well, if you look at it that way, there is nothing further for me to say," said Mr.
Gale stiffly. "I understood But hasn't my partner, Mr. Ware, seen you?" he asked Tom quickly. "No. And I don't care to see him." "Oh, then that accounts for it," was the quick answer. "Well, if you regard the matter as closed I suppose we should also. We are not to blame for what Lydane does when he is no longer in our employ, and we repudiate anything he may do, or may have done."
As it was, Lydane had Mary's father, and was afraid to let him go, though really their prisoner became a white elephant on the hands of the conspirators and kidnappers. And it was after all this was cleared up, and Mr. Nestor restored to his family and friends, that one day, Tom Swift received another visit from Mr. Terrill, the government agent. "Well, Mr.
The officials of the company were indicted, and several of the minor ones sent to jail but Gale and Ware escaped by remaining abroad. It came out that they both knew of the acts of Lydane and his companion in crime, and that the two officials realized the mistake that had been made by their clumsy operatives.
The attempt to waylay Tom, and so get the plans from him, had been tried before this, only a mistake had been made, and Mr. Nestor was caught instead. Finding out their error, Lydane and his companions did not tell the Universal people of their mistake, though Gale and Ware knew the attempt was to be made against Tom Swift.
But perhaps this is what he referred to when he said he and his company would repudiate any act of that spy with the gold tooth Lydane, so Gale said his name was. Maybe that's what Lydane did." "He was capable of it," agreed the mechanic, "but he couldn't have done it that time you tripped him into the mud puddle. This silencer wasn't built then." "No, you're right," assented Tom.
The man tripped into the mud hole lost in the muck the plans Bower passed to him. They were never recovered. Then Lydane tried again. He managed, through bribery, to gain access to the hangar where the new silent machine was kept, and, unable to get the silencer apart, tried to file it. In doing so he weakened it so that it burst.
Well, then, what I called to say was that if you are thinking of taking any legal action against us because of the action of that man Lydane, I wish to state that he had absolutely no authority to " "Excuse me!" broke in Tom, "but by Lydane do you mean the man who also posed as Bower, the spy?" "No, I do not. Though I regret to say that Bower once worked for us.
"No, he didn't get the chance!" chuckled Tom. "Nor did that other spy the one with the gold tooth. I wonder how he liked our mud hole?" "He was Lydane," said Mr. Gale. "It is about him I came." "You might have saved yourself the trouble," returned Tom. "I don't wish to discuss him." "But I wish to make sure," said Mr. Gale, "that what he has done will not come back on us.
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