“Well, Dave, what is the next move?” asked the senator’s son, as the two were alone in the lavatory, washing up after the long bicycle ride.
“I wish I could find Phil and the others and get them to come back here,” responded our hero. “It is a great mistake for them to stay away.”
“I believe you—it looks just as if they were guilty. I wonder that they don’t come back on their own account, now they have had a chance to think it over.”
“I think they saw that article in the newspaper, Roger, and it scared them worse than ever. Maybe they imagine the officers of the law are waiting to gobble them up.”
“If we only had some trace of them!”
“I’ve got an idea I am going to follow up.”
“What sort of an idea?”
“I was thinking of that baggage that left here. Maybe it was shipped to some point.”
“You’ll have a job tracing it up.”
“I can try it, anyway,” answered our hero.