“But Nadia!” cried Brad. “If he forces the professor to tell where Nadia may be found——”
“We’ll lose no time in sending a warning message to the Budthornes. Then it will be a race between us and Miguel Bunol out of England, across the Channel and down into sunny Italy. But Bunol will seek to baffle and delay us.”
“How?”
“By keeping Zenas Gunn a prisoner somewhere, knowing we’ll not leave England until we have found and freed him.”
“Great tarantulas! I reckon you’re right, partner! You’re a whole lot long-headed, and you have tumbled to his game. Whatever can we do?”
“We must beat him at that game.”
“Elucidate how.”
“This runaway and smash-up was something not reckoned on by Bunol.”
“Certain not.”
“Durbin was left for dead.”