Part 1 (2/2)
”I guess we had better go slower, Andy,” advised Sam in a low voice
”I don't want to be arrested”
”Leave this tothis tour The next tiet in my way I'll run you down!” he threatened Tom ”Come on, felloe're late now, and can't ot back into the car, followed by his cronies, who had hurriedly alighted after their thrilling stop
”If you try anything like this again you'll wish you hadn't,”
declared Tom, and he watched the autoet it!” snapped back Andy, and he laughed, his co in reply Slowly he rehts toward Andy Foger were not very pleasant ones Andy was the son of a wealthy ood fortune in the matter of money seemed to have spoiled him, for he was a bully and a coward Several ti But this was the first time Andy had shown such a vindictive spirit
”He thinks he can run over everything since he got his new auto,”
commented Tom aloud as he rode on ”He'll have a smash-up so I wonder where he and his crowd are going?”
Musing over his narrow escape Tom rode on, and was soon at his home, where he lived with his ed father, Barton Swift, a wealthy inventor, and the latter's housekeeper, Mrs Baggert Approaching a machine shop, one of several built near his house by Mr Swift, in which he conducted experiments and constructed apparatus Tom was met by his parent
”What's thehad happened”
”So very nearly did,” answered the youth, and related his experience on the road
”Huht have ended disastrously I suppose Andy and his chu to me about it the other day He said Andy and soone a week orspecial to do, To for pleasure, and if you want , I'm ready”
”Then I wish you'd take this letter to Mansburg for istered, and I don't wish to mail it in the Shopton post-office
It's too important, for it's about a valuable invention”
”The new turbine motor, dad?”
”That's it And on your way I wish you'd stop in Merton'sfor me”
”I will Is that the letter?” and Tom extended his hand for a missive his father held
”Yes Please be careful of it It's to etting a patent for the turbine
That's why I' it mailed here
Several times before I have posted letters here, only to have the information contained in them leak out before my attorneys received the; don't speak about my new invention in Merton's shop when you stop for the bolts”
”Why, do you think he gave out inforht not ers wereinquiries of him, about whether he ever did any work for me”
”What did he tell them?”