“Why not tell the truth?” snapped Langley.
“Don’t you want to find out who endangered you and the rest of us?”
Lang considered Bob’s sharp phrase. “Yes,” he said finally.
The best way to do that, argued Curt, was by watchful waiting, not by putting the possible malefactor on his guard. “They could,” Al declared, “see who makes the repair, and I can watch, being out near the ’planes, and see if anybody takes a special interest in the floor and the cables.”
Langley agreed rather bruskly and went off to take up his inquiries about the brown airplane they had seen in the field.
“Watchful waiting!” repeated Bob, thoughtfully. “That’s a good slogan. Let’s ‘watchful wait’ to see what Griff does—and how Lang acts—and if either of them acts queerly when they are with Griff’s father.”
“Just what makes you suspicious of him—the father?” Curt asked, more to check up his own theories than for information. “He’s Mr. Tredway’s partner, you know.”
“I suspect him,” Al declared, “because he’s the kind that looks suspicious, with his quick action and his sharp talk and his shifty eyes.”
“And Griff is exactly the same in every way,” supplemented Bob.
“Then we have two suspects to keep tabs on,” agreed Curt.