“What became of him?” inquired Fred.
“I don’t know. I have often tried to find out,” replied Mr. Sanders. “You see the men in those days were so busy making history that they had little time in which to write it. As a consequence there are many things which we would like to know, but do not.”
“Now,” continued Mr. Sanders as he arose from his seat, “I understand that you boys have lost an automobile.”
“We didn’t lose it,” exclaimed George; “it was stolen.”
“It seems to me,” said Mr. Sanders, “that if you had an automobile and haven’t one now you must have lost it, whatever the way in which it disappeared.”
CHAPTER XI—THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING CAR
“What are you going to do?” inquired Mr. Sanders.
“We don’t know what to do,” explained Fred. “We thought when you came out here you would tell us.”