“He didn’t seem to see me, but was staring ahead, with his hands on the levers each side of him. He didn’t look down, but the person with him did.”
“Ah!” said the interested Harvey; “he had a companion then?”
“Yes; it must have been the young man you spoke of, for I remember he had a black face; he leaned over, waved his hand at me and shouted some words which I didn’t catch. He was sitting beside the Professor.”
“That was Bohunkus. When he and I sailed together, he never lost a chance of saluting every one who looked up at him. Now, Aunty, you tell me you saw an aerocar going northward; can you tell me how far it went?”
The woman shook her head.
“I watched him till my eyes ached. I can’t see very well with my glasses and he soon passed out of sight.”
“But what was his course?”
“Not exactly north, but a little to the east of north, toward Dix Peak and the Schroon River. He may have kept on to Nipple Top and Elizabethtown or even farther.”
“What time of the day was this?”
“A little after breakfast. I was expecting Gideon and had waited for him, but he must have been too busy to come home.”