Part 14 (1/2)
”What--what happened? Did the Hu his hand to his head
”No, souess,” said the doctor, who had been hurriedly told of the circuht in a few days You got a bad cut on the head, but the skull isn't fractured, I'ave Tolass
The cut was soon dressed, and Toh weak and a trifle dizzy
”Did he hit me with the hatchet?” he asked Mr Jackson
”I couldn't tell,” was the engineer's reply, ”it all happened so quickly In another instant I'd have bowled hi on you, but I just missed him He either used the hatchet, or some blunt instrued the doctor ”I want Too to sleep We'll be , but I er at To ”You'll have to lie quiet for several days,” he added
”All right,” agreed the young inventor weakly, and then he dozed off, for the physician had given hi medicine
”Haven't you any idea who it was?” asked Dr Gladby of Mr Jackson, as he prepared to leave
”Not the slightest It was no one Tom or I had ever seen before But whoever it was, he intended to destroy the Hulad you foiled him in time; but it's too bad about Toain”
”I knoho done it!” broke in Eradicate, as a sort of privileged character about the Swift home
”Who?” asked Mr Jackson
”It were dat Andy Foger Leastways, he send dat man heah t' make mincemeat oh de Hurinned triumphantly
”Well, perhaps Andy did have a hand in it,” admitted Mr Swift, ”but we have no proof of it, I can't see what his object would be in wanting to destroy Tom's new craft”
”Pure ested Mr Jackson
”It's too big a risk to take,” went on the aged inventor ”I' of men who ht have sent a spy on East, and he ed for what Toreed the engineer ”Well, we'll wait until Too over it with hih,” stipulated the physician as he went away ”Don't excite To inventor wasday, and when Dr
Gladby called he said Tom could sit up for a little while Two days later Toh to be talked to, and his father and Mr
Jackson went over all the details of the matter Mr Damon, who had returned hoht, and was also aparty
”Bless my dictionary!” exclaimed the eccentric man ”I wish I had been here to take a hand in it But, To?”
”I hardly think so,” was the reply ”They would take so my new aeroplane I'er”
”Then we'll hire detectives, and locate his in succession