The boys were all attention in an instant.
“Whose machine was it?” asked Carl.
“That’s what they don’t know,” answered the ranger. “A man who claimed to come from New York dropped in a big machine early this morning and went to bed at a hotel. In an hour or two a couple of Japs claimed the machine and induced an officer to help them get it away.”
“Did you hear any of the names?” asked Ben.
“Havens, the man’s name was,” replied the ranger.
“Well,” Ben said, “that’s the name of the man who owns this big machine.”
“Where is Havens now?” asked Carl.
“My informant stated that he was in jail!” replied the ranger.
“Jail?” demanded Ben. “What for?”
“It seems that this man Havens and a friend of his beat up a deputy sheriff, and the hotel detective, and shook up a hotel clerk like a rat.”