CHAPTER XII
GREENBAUM THREATENS
More than ever anxious, as much by what Mr. Jackson had left unsaid as by what had come to him over the wire before the interruption, Tom Swift hailed a taxicab and in it rode to his home, stopping, since it was on his way, to let Ned Newton off at the latter’s home.
“Don’t talk too much—outside your own family circle—of what happened, Ned,” was the warning Tom gave his chum as they parted.
“I won’t. But you aren’t going to let the matter drop here, are you?”
“I should say not! But I want to swoop down on those fellows before they know it.”
Tom found his father excited by the sudden news over his son’s safety, but it was a joyous reaction after the dismal news brought back by Mr. Damon and Koku, following the episode of the motorboat chase.
“What happened after I left you?” Tom asked Mr. Damon, who had been pretty constantly at the Swift home following the kidnapping of the young inventor and his manager.
“After you left us?” repeated the eccentric man somewhat dazedly. “You mean——?”
“I mean after I fell overboard,” said Tom, with a smile.