"On top of the tire pump and the lifting-jack," replied Walter.
"And empty—that's the queer part of it," commented Belle. "I guess that's what shocked you as much as anything, Cora. Now, if it had had the twenty thousand dollars in it—"
"It's strange that the wallet should have been there—in my tool-box—at all," murmured Cora.
"It certainly is," added Jack. "What can it mean—to find it in
Cora's car?"
"Is this the one Ed Foster lost?" asked Diddick. "We heard something about it."
"The same one," answered Walter as he picked the wallet from the road where it had fallen. "See, it has his name on it."
"I feel creepy—almost as if something supernatural had put it into my tool-box," said Cora in a curiously quiet voice.
"More likely some unnatural person did it," spoke Jack quickly. "Yet who in the world would do it? If I had seen—"
He stopped suddenly, leaving the sentence unfinished.
"And it was on top of the pump and jack," mused Cora, after a quick look at her brother. "I haven't used the pump since—let me see—"