[CHAPTER XXIII]
WHAT BOB SAW
"It beats anything I ever heard of—I can hardly believe it. Sure you're not joking?"
"Amazing—that's the word! I wonder what their game is now. H'm, I'm utterly befogged, or whatever you choose to call it."
"Haven't we been easy marks, though?"
"Now we are certain that Mr. Wingate and Nat have been working some kind of a game on us."
The five Ramblers had gathered in Bob Somers' room, and were discussing the astonishing turn in affairs with much animation.
"The whole thing must have been started on the very day that Mr. Wingate came down to look at the 'Rambler.' Probably he only gave Nat a boat so that he could follow us."
"There's a lot of things we have to find out," observed Dick; "who damaged the engine, for one."