“Unless Mr. Tredway did it on purpose—crashed!”
“Why should he?”
To Mr. Wright’s quiet inquiry Barney answered readily enough.
“I run the plant,” he said. “The deep part of the money end, and all that is none of my business. But I happen to know there’s some trouble about money, or losses, or something like that.”
“You think—” Mr. Wright bent forward, “—Tredway, because he was in some financial difficulty, or deeper trouble, might have done away with himself?”
“Well,” defensively Barney replied, “how else do you account for a diving ship, placed so careful, on the lakeside, close to shore, and only damaged as little as possible, and then not from anything being wrong in her?”
Bob saw that his father was very thoughtful.
“Do you think he ran off and hid, afterward?” he demanded.
“They didn’t find hide nor hair of him, did they? Dredging, or searching didn’t locate anything!”
“That’s so!”