“Sure—there were.”
“I didn’t see any.”
“That isn’t saying they weren’t there,” said Tom.
“Tomasso, you’re a wonder.”
“Only how did they ever get an automobile, or a motor baby carriage or whatever you call it, up to that place?”
“That’s what’s got me,” said Roy.
They found their companions still searching, but almost discouraged, and Mr. Ellsworth listened with keen interest to Roy’s report.
“Hmmm,” said he, soberly; “you say you saw wheel imprints? Were there no wheel tracks?”
“No,” said Tom, “but the land was grassy in places and it was pretty hard.”
“Hmmm?” was all that Mr. Ellsworth could say. “I think the most likely view is that the body is at the bottom of that bottomless pool,” he added. “I don’t see that we can do anything else, boys. It goes against me to go on without finding the poor fellow’s body, but—”