If robbery were intended why had they not searched him at the start and if they only wanted the car why had they taken him along with them instead of getting rid of him at once?
All these things set him to thinking and he had plenty of time for it as the car seemed to have no intention of stopping but kept right on, now up, now down, but all the time at a rapid gait.
It must have been fully an hour from the time he had been seized when the car began to slow down and then stopped but where he was Jack could not, of course, have any idea.
“I wonder if this is a hazing joke of some of the fellows?” he asked himself. “Billy Manners would be up to just such a trick. Perhaps we are at the Academy now and they are ready to have a great laugh at my expense. I don’t see what else it could be.”
There was no sound to be heard, however, as there would be if they were near the Academy and Jack was as much puzzled as ever when he was lifted out of the car and taken somewhere, where he could not tell.
He was placed upon a bench but whether it were out of doors or in he had no notion.
He knew no more when the bandage was taken off his eyes and the gag removed, for all was as dark as pitch, the car either having been taken away or the lights put out, for he could see nothing.
“You set quiet,” some one said to him. “We ain’t going to hurt you but you’re goin’ to stay with us for a spell.”
“Who are you and where am I and what are you going to do?” Jack asked, being unable to see any one.
“Never mind askin’ questions,” returned the other. “We ain’t goin’ to hurt you, that’s all, an’ you needn’t be afraid o’ nothing.”