There was no answer to this remark, so without further ceremony Mr. Sutton hung up the receiver.
There was to be no rest for the weary, it seemed. A search party must be called and the country scoured for the missing men.
CHAPTER XXIII
VISITORS AT PRESTON
Dr. Wright was pretty sure that James Hanks would not have been able to travel very far after the knockout blow he had received, so when they could not find him in the woods near by it was decided he must be in hiding in some cabin. The search continued but no trace was found of the missing men.
“Sounds shady to me,” declared Lewis Somerville.
“The idea! You can’t mean that the count and Mr. Herz deliberately let the men get away!” exclaimed Douglas.
“I believe they are capable of it.”
“Lewis! How can you?”