“You might try to find the missing man, and buy him out, or make some arrangement with him. From what I can learn he and the others have quarreled and are opposed to each other.”
“Where is the missing man?” asked Bob.
“That is something on which I can not be of the least help to you,” was the reply. “There is nothing to show where he is.”
“Then it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to search for him, and as long and costly as the injunction means,” commented Mr. Snodgrass.
“I’m afraid it would,” was the lawyer’s answer.
“What is the man’s name?” asked Jerry.
“I have it here,” proceeded the attorney. “It is Mr. Well, no, that’s not it. Oh yes! Here it is. Bell, that’s it. Mr. Jackson Bell.”
“What?” fairly shouted the three boys at once.
“What name?” inquired the professor, wondering if he had heard aright.